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Damages: What is at stake? What may you be entitled to? Medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering

Please accept this blog entry from the Boca Raton accident lawyer.  As a personal injury attorney in Boca Raton, the office commonly gets questions about how to prove a case.  This is part of the topic for today’s entry.

I have spoken on the site about liaiblity and more recently about causation.  Liability of course is the fault issue which is required to be proven in an accident case.  Causation, as I have spoken about more recently, is the connection between liability and damages.  I must prove that the injuries alleged were CAUSED by this accident.  The third element of a case is damages.

Over the next  few blog entries, I am going to speak about damages and today I am going to do a brief overview of same. 

People commonly come to me as a injury lawyer in Boca Raton and question how to get reimbursed for their medical bills following an accident that is not their fault.  Thus, the most common element of a damages claim in an injury case is medical bills.  Medical bills can be hospital bills, ambulance bills, physician bills, diagnostic test bills.

The next most common damages following an injury case is for lost wages.  Lost wages can be a small issue of missing work for a day to being completely unable to work for the rest of your life.  There can be issues of the inability to be able to do the job one is trained even though someone is still able to do other jobs.  In all of these situations, you may be entitled to monies for the time you are unable to work or for the difference of what you are able to earn versus what you are able to earn after an accident.

The last common element of damages after an accident is for pain and suffering.  This is known as the loss of ability to enjoy life.  When someone is injured, they commonly seek monies for the change in their life stemming from the injury.  If someone has a badly broken leg requiring surgery and a metal plate to hold their bones together, this very possibly will cause pain for the remainder of someone’s life and further it may limit the person’s ability to use their leg.  For example, the injured person may never be able to ski again or may never be able to ski without significant pain.  These sort of damages are for “pain and suffering” and you are entitled to them backwards and also forward, i.e. past pain and suffering and future pain and suffering.  The past pain and suffering are the pain and suffering from the date of the trial and backwards and the future pain and suffering are from the date of the trial forward into the future.

Every case is different and must be judged on its merits. It is a good start to get a free consultation regarding an accident case in case this happens to you. The advice contained in this blog is intended to be of general matter and not as to a specific situation, so please call a licensed Florida attorney, like Gary J. Drucker, to advise if and how Florida law applies to your case.

When you are in an accident and someone else is at fault, you may have a claim against them for your damages.  You may seek to contact an injury lawyer in Boca Raton when you are injured in an accident.  At Drucker Law Offices, clients are advised regarding, amongst other things, their damages.  If you or a loved one has been in an accident, please call the injury attorney at Drucker Law Offices at 561-483-9199 for a free consultation.

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