What is a spinal cord injury case worth?

What lifetime care actually costs: attendant care, equipment, therapies, complications, lost earnings, priced across a full life expectancy by life-care planning and economic experts. High-level injuries routinely justify eight-figure valuations; the constraint is usually coverage, which is why finding every policy and defendant matters.

The at-fault driver only has a small policy. What then?

We stack: your UM/UIM coverage, household policies, umbrella policies, employer liability if the driver was working, product claims against vehicle manufacturers, premises claims where a property played a role. SCI cases are coverage-hunting cases.

How long do I have to file in Colorado?

Three years for vehicle crashes, generally two otherwise, 182 days for government notice. But rehab timelines and insurance decisions start immediately, early counsel changes outcomes.

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What Can You Recover After a Spinal Cord Injury?

Spinal cord injury cases at our firm typically settle for $1 million to $20 million, and priced by what the injury takes, decade after decade. Life-care planning drives these values: what the injury costs at 40, at 60, and at 80.

Insurers pay more, and pay sooner, when they know a jury is coming. We build every file for the courtroom from the first day, and so far we are undefeated.

With us, you speak directly with your attorney, we help you get immediate medical care, regardless whether you have insurance, and there's no fee unless we win. Contact us now for a free consultation.

Why Spinal Cord Cases Are Different

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The medicine is lifelong, so the case must be too. A settlement that looks large against this year's bills collapses against year fifteen's, pressure injuries, shoulder degradation from transfers, equipment replacement cycles, attendant-care inflation. We build the life-care plan with physiatrists and planners who work from the rehab team's own projections, then let economists put the real number on it. The mechanics are detailed on our spinal cord injury playbook.

These are the definitive catastrophic cases, built with the life-care planning our catastrophic injury guide describes.

Aurora's Spinal Injury Medicine

Aurora SCI patients are stabilized at UCHealth's Level I trauma center on the Anschutz campus, often minutes from the crash on I-225 or Colfax that caused the injury, and rehabilitate at Craig Hospital, the SCI center families relocate across the country to reach. That proximity is a litigation asset: the treating teams writing your future-care projections are the best in the field, and their word carries weight with insurers and Arapahoe County juries alike.

How We Build an SCI Case

Liability gets locked early, reconstruction, EDR data, witnesses, because the damages phase needs the runway. Then the long build: the life-care plan, vocational and economic analysis, day-in-the-life documentation, and the coverage hunt across every policy and defendant, including product claims (seatback failures, roof crush, airbag non-deployment) that turn a policy-limits case into full compensation.

Damages, Venue, and Deadlines

Under HB24-1472, non-economic damages are capped at $1.5 million (2025); economic damages and physical impairment damages are uncapped, and a fatal incident carries the $2,125,000 wrongful death cap. In SCI cases the uncapped categories, economic and impairment, dominate, which is why the caps matter less than the coverage. Venue: Arapahoe County District Court for most Aurora injuries; three years for crashes, less for other claims. If trial is what it takes, we are ready.

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