What Compensation Can I Receive In A Personal Injury Case?

Summary

In a personal injury case, compensation includes economic damages like medical expenses and lost wages, as well as non-economic damages like pain and suffering.

Highlights

• Economic damages cover medical bills and wage losses.
• Future medical expenses can also be claimed. 
• Non-economic damages reflect pain and suffering.
• Lawyers play a crucial role in assessing non-economic damages.
• Disfigurement and emotional distress are included in non-economic damages.
• Understanding damage categories is essential for maximizing compensation.
• The goal is to achieve the best result for clients.
   

Transcript

What type of compensation can you receive for a personal injury case? You can receive medical bills, future medical bills, and wage losses. All those are called economic damages. Now, you can also receive what's called non-economic damages, and that's where a lawyer can really help you. Non-economic damages are things like pain and suffering, disfigurement, and those broad, subjective things about how this wreck or this injury affected your life and how it's changed your life. It's our job to understand these types of damage categories and get the best result for you.