Dr. Ashea Neil, OTD is a nationally certified life care planner, work capacity evaluator, and occupational therapist with nearly 15 years of specialized experience in catastrophic injury, chronic pain, pediatrics, and neurological rehabilitation. Her credentials position her to offer expert opinion across a wide range of litigation needs, including life care planning, functional capacity evaluation (FCE), vocational rehabilitation, employability, and future earnings loss.
Dr. Neil earned her Doctor of Occupational Therapy from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. Her doctoral research focused on the use of usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR) percentiles for medical cost estimation, examining how percentile selection impacts the accuracy, equity, and defensibility of life care plans.
She holds the Certified Work Capacity Evaluator (CWCE) designation—the gold standard credential for conducting functional capacity evaluations—and provides in-depth vocational assessments that evaluate post-injury work capacity, employment trajectory, and wage loss. She is often retained by both plaintiff and defense counsel to develop comprehensive life care plans, deliver rebuttals to opposing expert reports, and provide expert testimony across multiple areas of qualification.
Dr. Neil has been accepted as an expert witness in life care planning, occupational therapy, functional capacity evaluation, and vocational matters in various courts, including U.S. state jurisdictions and Canadian courts. Her testimony is known for being thorough and credible, at both deposition and trial.
Attorneys across North America rely on Dr. Neil for clear, data-driven, and multidisciplinary expert reports that hold up under scrutiny and effectively communicate the real-world impact of injury.
