Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer NYC

A spinal cord injury changes the arithmetic of a claim completely. The number that matters is not this year's medical bills — it is the cost of the next forty years: attendant care, home modification, wheelchair replacement cycles, urological and pressure-sore management, adaptive vehicles and lost career earnings. Settling a cord injury case on the strength of current bills alone routinely leaves seven figures on the table.

• Physiatrist life care plan pricing every future need year by year.
• Economist present-value calculation of lost earnings and lost household services.
• Vocational assessment of what work, if any, remains realistic.
• Full insurance archaeology: primary and excess auto layers, general liability, owner and contractor policies, umbrella coverage.
• Early preservation of the scaffold, harness, vehicle or equipment involved, before it is repaired or scrapped.

Falls from height on construction sites

Labor Law 240(1) makes owners and general contractors strictly liable when a required safety device fails. These are the strongest liability cases in New York, and the ones insurers try hardest to reframe as worker error.

High-speed and rollover motor vehicle crashes

Auto policy limits are usually exhausted immediately, so the case turns on finding additional coverage — commercial vehicle policies, employer liability, defective vehicle claims.

Surgical and diagnostic negligence

Missed cauda equina syndrome, delayed decompression and epidural abscess misdiagnosis convert a treatable condition into permanent paralysis. These are medical malpractice cases with a 30-month filing limit.

Incomplete injuries — central cord, Brown-Séquard, anterior cord syndromes — often produce partial recovery, which defendants use to minimise value. The correct approach is to document maximum medical improvement with your treating team before agreeing to any number.