{"id":143,"date":"2021-09-09T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:44:54","slug":"what-is-the-kabco-scale-for-assessing-catastrophic-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/what-is-the-kabco-scale-for-assessing-catastrophic-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the KABCO Scale for Assessing Catastrophic Injuries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Car accidents remain one of the leading causes of death and disability in the U.S., so government officials are constantly researching, assessing data, and reviewing statistics to determine ways to reduce them. One measurement that has proven useful for purposes of analysis is the so-called KABCO scale established by the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/safety.fhwa.dot.gov\/hsip\/spm\/conversion_tbl\/pdfs\/kabco_ctable_by_state.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Federal Highway Administration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (FHWA), which evaluates the severity of auto collision injuries and expresses how they impact crash costs.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are several complicated formulas that FHWA uses to balance how much a manufacturer must expend to implement accident countermeasures against how well they succeed in reducing crashes. The resulting calculation is useful from the perspective of societal costs, but the KABCO scale may also be a factor if you suffered severe, debilitating trauma in a collision. Though you can trust your<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/catastrophic-injuries.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami catastrophic injuries attorney<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for help with the legal process, here is an overview of the KABCO scale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>KABCO Injury Scale and Cost Assessment<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.injuryattorneyfla.com\/blog\/what-is-the-kabco-scale-for-assessing-catastrophic-injuries\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading What is the KABCO Scale for Assessing Catastrophic Injuries?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car accidents remain one of the leading causes of death and disability in the U.S., so government officials are constantly researching, assessing data, and reviewing statistics to determine ways to reduce them. 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