Spinal Cord Injury Lawsuits | LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
A spinal cord injury changes how you will live for the rest of your life.
Spinal cord injuries produce the highest lifetime care costs of any traumatic injury. Paraplegia, quadriplegia, and incomplete cord injuries require decades of medical management, adaptive equipment, attendant care, and home modification. Hance & Srinivasan has the trial experience to build a case that fully accounts for all of it.
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Spinal Cord Injury Lawsuits Overview
Insurers evaluate spinal cord injury claims based on what they cost today. A lifetime care plan reveals what they will actually cost, and the gap is enormous.
The immediate costs of a spinal cord injury are significant: emergency surgery, acute rehabilitation, initial adaptive equipment, and home modification. But they are a small fraction of lifetime costs that include ongoing medical management, recurrent hospitalizations for complications such as pressure sores and urinary tract infections, specialized transportation, attendant care, annual replacement of wheelchairs and other adaptive devices, and total loss of earning capacity in many cases. An insurer’s early offer is based on the immediate costs. A life care plan reveals the real number.
“We will not negotiate the value of a spinal cord injury case until the life care plan is complete and every dollar over a lifetime is documented. That is how these cases are built. ”
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Know Your Spinal Cord Injury Lawsuits Rights
Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Law in plain language.
Spinal cord injury cases require immediate evidence preservation and early retention of appropriate experts. The sooner we evaluate your situation, the better your chances of a favorable result.
Your Right to Full Lifetime Compensation.
Kentucky permits recovery for all medical expenses past and future, all lost wages and reduced earning capacity over a working lifetime, pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, loss of consortium for a spouse, and in cases of reckless or intentional conduct, punitive damages. The full economic cost of a spinal cord injury, established through a certified life care plan, is presented to the jury as the measure of damages. Kentucky imposes no cap.
Your Right to Compensation for the Full Impact on Your Life.
Beyond medical costs, a spinal cord injury changes everything: the ability to work, to parent, to pursue activities that defined the person before the injury, and to maintain relationships. Kentucky law recognizes these noneconomic losses as fully compensable. Pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life, and loss of consortium are all recoverable without any statutory limit.
Spinal Cord Injury Lawsuits Questions
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Yes significantly. Higher-level cervical injuries affecting both arm and leg function carry greater lifetime care costs than lower-level thoracic or lumbar injuries. Complete injuries carry greater costs than incomplete injuries with preserved function. The precise neurological level and completeness of the injury, established by the treating neurosurgeon and confirmed by independent expert review, is the foundation of the life care plan and the damages calculation.
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A certified life care planner documents every cost the injury will impose over the plaintiff’s lifetime: ongoing medical management by a spinal cord injury specialist, recurrent hospitalizations for complications, medications including those for spasticity and pain management, annual wheelchair replacement and repair, adaptive vehicle modification, home modification for accessibility, attendant care hours per day, and any other durable medical equipment required. Each item is costed at current and projected rates and converted to present-day value by an economist.
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All past and future medical expenses including lifetime care costs, all lost wages and earning capacity, pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life, loss of consortium for a spouse, and punitive damages where the conduct warrants it. Kentucky has no damages cap.
Further reading
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