Nevada Spinal Cord Injury Attorney Las Vegas
Spinal cord injuries sustained in Nevada accidents — car crashes, truck collisions, falls, construction accidents, and diving accidents — can result in permanent paralysis that transforms every aspect of a victim’s life. Complete spinal cord injuries above the thoracic level cause paraplegia or quadriplegia; incomplete injuries cause partial loss of sensation and motor function that varies depending on the injury level and severity. The lifetime economic costs of spinal cord injury are enormous — National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center data projects average lifetime costs ranging from approximately $1.2 million for motor-incomplete injuries to over $5 million for high cervical complete injuries. Recovering these lifetime costs requires building a comprehensive damages case with life care planning, economic, and medical experts. Marathon Law Group’s Las Vegas personal injury attorneys have the resources to build these cases and the experience to present them effectively.
Life Care Planning in Nevada Spinal Cord Injury Cases
Life care plans prepared by certified life care planners (CLCPs) are the foundation of spinal cord injury damages cases. A comprehensive life care plan projects all future medical needs over the victim’s expected lifespan — including physician visits, emergency hospitalizations, rehabilitation, attendant care hours (often 24-hour care for high cervical injuries), adaptive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, prescription medications, and replacement costs for equipment with defined useful lives. The life care plan is converted to a present value damages figure by a forensic economist. Marathon Law Group retains these experts as standard practice in catastrophic injury cases to ensure life care evidence meets the standards required for admissibility and jury persuasiveness.
Non-Economic Damages in Nevada SCI Cases
Beyond economic losses, Nevada spinal cord injury victims suffer profound non-economic losses — loss of physical independence, inability to engage in activities that previously defined their identity, sexual dysfunction, chronic pain, depression and adjustment disorder, and loss of the ability to parent young children in the ways they had planned. These non-economic damages are real and compensable under Nevada law, and Marathon Law Group presents them through compelling client testimony, treating mental health providers, and life care evidence that humanizes the full impact of these injuries.
Contact Marathon Law Group — Las Vegas Spinal Cord Injury Attorneys
Suffered a spinal cord injury in a Nevada accident? Marathon Law Group fights for the lifetime compensation SCI victims need. Contact us for a free consultation.