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Spinal cord injuries change everything in a single moment. Big Dog Law represents Arizonans hurt by another party's negligence — building the medical, vocational, and life-care record needed to fund a lifetime of care.
A spinal cord injury reorders a person’s life in a few seconds and then asks their family to manage the consequences for decades. The legal case has to match that reality. Settlements that look generous on paper run out fast when a wheelchair needs replacing, a bathroom needs to be retrofitted, or a job disappears. We build SCI cases to fund what the next forty years actually cost.
At a glance
A spinal cord injury claim is not just about who caused the wreck. It is about proving, with medical and vocational evidence, what the rest of the injured person’s life will cost. Courts and insurers compensate what is documented; they discount what isn’t. That makes the medical and life-care record the most important part of the file.
National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center estimate
Motor vehicle crashes
High-speed impacts, rollovers, freeway pileups, and rear-end strikes.
Falls
Construction sites, multi-story falls, ladder failures, and unsafe stairways.
Pedestrian and bicycle strikes
Drivers turning into cyclists or pedestrians at intersections.
Sports and recreation
Diving incidents, equestrian falls, organized contact sports.
Workplace incidents
Heavy machinery, structural collapses, and falls from elevation.
Acts of violence
Premises-liability claims when negligent security contributes.
Insurers tend to fight on two fronts: liability (who caused it) and damages (what it’s worth). On a spinal cord case, damages do most of the work.
Past and future medical care
ICU and acute care, rehab, surgeries, and the lifetime of follow-up care a treating physician projects.
Attendant care and home health
Hours per day of trained help, often funded into the next several decades.
Adaptive equipment and replacement
Power chairs, transfer lifts, vehicle modifications, and the replacement schedule each one carries.
Home modifications
Ramps, widened doors, roll-in showers, accessible kitchens — sometimes a different home entirely.
Lost earnings and reduced earning capacity
Both the income already lost and the long-term hit to what the injured person can earn going forward.
Pain, loss of enjoyment, and consortium
The non-economic toll on the injured person and the family who supports them.
Punitive damages
Available when the at-fault conduct was outrageous — for example, drunk driving or a known but ignored hazard.
Our SCI playbook
Lock down liability evidence
Scene investigation, vehicle data, witness statements, surveillance, and (for premises cases) inspection records and prior incidents.
Coordinate with treating providers
We speak the language of trauma centers and rehab teams so your medical record reflects what actually happened — and what the future looks like.
Engage life-care planners and economists
Independent experts project decades of care, equipment, and lost earnings into specific, defensible dollar figures.
Identify every available source of recovery
Liability insurance, umbrella policies, UM/UIM coverage, employer indemnity, and product-defect or premises-owner exposure.
Negotiate from a trial-ready posture
We prepare every SCI case as if it will go to verdict. That posture is what moves an insurer's number.
A spinal cord injury claim only works if it is built right from day one.
Free, confidential consultation. No fee unless we recover.
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