Catastrophic Injury Lawsuits across Metro Atlanta: How These Are Valued
Where the harm is permanent, the hospital bill is the smallest number in the file. The number that matters is what the next several decades cost: future surgeries, daily care, durable equipment and its replacement cycle, home and vehicle modification, medication, and a career that ended. No lawyer should be guessing at that number. It comes from a life care planner working with the treating physicians, and an economist converts it into today's dollars. It is not fa