Ashea Neil 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, 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.
Ms. Neil 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.
She 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.
Ms. Neil is currently completing her Doctorate in Occupational Therapy at the University of St. Augustine (anticipated August 2025). Her doctoral research focuses on the alignment between national fee reference databases and usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR) costs—a critical component of defensible life care planning.
Attorneys across North America rely on Ms. Neil for clear, data-driven, and multidisciplinary expert reports that hold up under scrutiny and effectively communicate the real-world impact of injury.
