Spinal Cord Injury Attorney

Why These Claims Are DifferentLifetime Costs Require a Different Kind of Claim

Most personal injury claims resolve around a bounded set of losses — past medical bills, a period of lost wages, and a pain-and-suffering component. A spinal cord injury claim works differently because the losses aren't bounded. They extend across a lifetime.

Settling a spinal cord injury claim before that full picture is documented — or accepting an early offer before life-care costs are established — can leave a family tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars short of what they'll actually need. That gap doesn't close after a release is signed.

Common CausesHow Spinal Cord Injuries Happen in Puyallup Personal Injury Cases

Spinal cord injuries in Pierce County most commonly result from:

• High-speed vehicle collisions — car, truck, and motorcycle crashes on corridors like Hwy 512, Meridian Ave, Canyon Road, and SR 167 where speed amplifies the forces transmitted to the spine in an impact.
• Truck and commercial vehicle crashes — the mass disparity between a large commercial vehicle and a passenger car produces disproportionate injury severity.
• Falls from height on construction sites, roofing work, or scaffolding — where the L&I-vs-third-party framework (RCW 51.24.030) may create both a workers' comp and a civil claim.
• Premises liability incidents — falls down stairs, from elevated surfaces, or into unguarded openings.
• Sports and recreational accidents — diving into shallow water, contact sports impacts, off-road vehicle crashes.

Each cause points to a different responsible party and a different insurance structure — vehicle insurer, commercial carrier, property owner, employer and third party, or product manufacturer. Identifying every source is one of the first things a catastrophic injury claim requires.

Washington LawNo Cap on Damages & the Filing Deadline

This page provides general information about Washington law and is not legal advice. The rules and deadlines that apply depend on the specific facts of your case; contact us to discuss your situation.

Expert SupportWhy Life-Care Planning and Vocational Experts Matter

An insurer's offer on a catastrophic injury case is only as credible as the documentation behind it. Without expert support, a spinal cord injury claim is essentially unsupported — and an insurer has every incentive to minimize what they pay.

• Life-care planners develop a detailed, professionally documented projection of future medical needs and costs over the injured person's expected lifetime — adaptive equipment, attendant care hours per day, home modifications, future procedures. This is the foundation of a future-cost claim.
• Vocational experts assess the permanent impact on earning capacity — the difference between what the person could have earned over their working life and what they can earn now, if anything.
• Medical experts establish the permanence and severity of the injury, the prognosis, and the standard of care for future treatment.

We engage expert support early — because building a well-documented claim from the start is what produces a settlement or verdict that reflects the actual scope of the loss. You work directly with Rob Lloyd and Tim Greene throughout. We handle spinal cord injury claims on a contingency-fee basis — no fee upfront, a fee only if we recover for you.