When you receive compensation in the form of a verdict award or settlement award, you are given a lump sum of money that should be used towards your recovery.
In general, recovery of damages is permitted for the following elements of damage:
- The nature and extent of injury, including whether the injury is permanent, and the amount of disability
- Medical expenses, including past bills and future expenses that are reasonably incurred
- Lost earnings and loss of capacity to earn a living
- Pain and suffering
- Property damage, including your motor vehicle and other items of personal property
- Permanent physical disability or disfigurement
- Loss of consortium for your spouse
- Emotional damages
A Look at the Numbers
While adding up expenses for damage to a motor vehicle may be relatively easy, calculating compensation for something like pain and suffering or emotional damages can be difficult to pin a number on. This is where our precise and exhausting research comes in, so that we may come up with a dollar figure amenable to your injuries and thus, compensation.
Insurance companies usually focus on a set damages formula to come up with a monetary figure of compensation. However, they will try to get away with the lowest possible amount, which often times is only enough to cover immediate damages.
Call Kuzyk Personal Injury & Car Accidents Lawyers Today
We invite you to contact Kuzyk Personal Injury & Car Accidents Lawyers for a FREE, no-obligation consultation at (661) 945-6969 . We speak English and Spanish fluently, and do all we can to put your mind at ease when you get in touch with us. And remember:
We don’t collect any money until you do!
Here at Kuzyk Personal Injury & Car Accidents Lawyers, we fight hard for compensation well above that number because we know you may have a long, hard road ahead of you in terms of lost wages, therapy and medical bills.
Call now for a free case evaluation and learn more about what your compensation will cover.