Injury Due to Car Accident

Read­ing Time: < 1 minute[tab name=“Injury Due to Car Acci­dent”] Are you injured due to a car acci­dent?  Do you have med­ical expens­es incurred to treat an injury, such as doctor’s vis­its; hos­pi­tal expens­es; emer­gency room expens­es; fees for chi­ro­prac­tic care; phys­i­cal ther­a­py; and any type of med­ical devices that may be need­ed for your recov­ery, such as neck braces or crutches.

• Future Med­ical Expens­es: These are recov­er­able if the injured par­ty can show that he or she is like­ly to need con­tin­ued med­ical care as a result of the acci­dent or injury.
• Men­tal Anguish: Recov­ery for any type of men­tal or emo­tion­al dis­tress suf­fered as a result of an acci­dent or injury.
• If the injured par­ty has been dis­fig­ured by the accident/incident, men­tal suf­fer­ing is recov­er­able for this type of emo­tion­al injury.
• Lost Wages: You may recov­er the amount of mon­ey you would have earned between the time of the injury to the time of a judg­ment or set­tle­ment had you not been injured.
• Past earn­ings will be used to deter­mine an appro­pri­ate dam­age award, but a jury will like­ly focus on what might have been earned had the acci­dent or injury not occurred.
• The unin­jured spouse makes the claim and only has a chance of recov­er­ing if the injured spouse suc­ceeds in recov­er­ing damages.

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