The extent of someone’s injuries is typically the baseline for their legal damages. Legal damages reflect, in a dollar amount, the harm a malpractice victim sustained due to the incident and resulting injuries. In a medical malpractice case, the damages a person sustains may include:
Medical expenses, including the cost of future treatments to correct the malpractice
Income or wages lost due to recovering from the incident
Physical pain
Mental and emotional suffering
Loss of companionship or consortium