Case Types

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases involve a bump, blow, or jolt to the head, or a penetrating head injury, that disrupts normal brain function. Vocational and economic damages in TBI matters are often complex because cognitive, behavioral, and emotional sequelae may coexist with physical limitations, and the injured person's pre-injury earning capacity must be reconstructed from education, training, work history, and transferable skills.

Spinal cord injury (SCI) cases address the vocational, economic, and life-care consequences of partial or complete loss of motor or sensory function below the level of injury. Outcomes vary substantially with neurological level and ASIA Impairment Scale classification, which drives the scope of both vocational opinion and life care plan.

Amputation cases involve the loss of a limb or part of a limb, with vocational, economic, and life-care implications driven by level of amputation, dominant versus non-dominant side, and the physical demands of the claimant's prior occupation. Prosthetic technology, replacement intervals, and ongoing rehabilitation are central to life care planning.

Wrongful death cases quantify the economic loss to survivors and the estate resulting from a decedent's death, most commonly as lost earnings, lost fringe benefits, lost household services, and lost personal services or guidance. The vocational component reconstructs the decedent's pre-death earning capacity; the economic component reduces projected losses to present value net of personal consumption.

Medical malpractice cases address injury allegedly caused by a deviation from the accepted standard of care. Vocational, economic, and life-care analyses typically accompany standard-of-care and causation opinions, quantifying the incremental harm attributable to the alleged breach.

Burn injury cases involve thermal, chemical, electrical, or radiation burns with vocational and life-care consequences driven by total body surface area, depth, location, and complications such as contractures, scarring, and psychological sequelae.

Personal injury cases encompass a broad range of physical and psychological harms arising from negligence. Vocational, economic, and life-care experts quantify the functional, earnings, and care consequences of the injury.

Workers' compensation matters involve work-related injury or illness with vocational rehabilitation, return-to-work analysis, and earning capacity components governed by state-specific statutes.

Long-term disability (LTD) matters assess whether a claimant is capable of performing their own or any occupation under the applicable policy definition, drawing on medical records, functional capacity evaluations, and labor market analysis.

Wrongful termination cases quantify back pay, front pay, and mitigation efforts, often requiring a vocational evaluation of the claimant's post-termination job search, marketable skills, and comparable-occupation wage data.

Matrimonial vocational evaluations quantify earning capacity for support and maintenance determinations, often where one spouse has been out of the workforce or is imputed an earning capacity different from actual income.

Motor vehicle accident (MVA) cases cover a spectrum of injury severity, from soft tissue to catastrophic. Vocational, economic, and life care planning analyses scale to the functional consequences of the crash.