Personal injury attorneys can help represent your case and calculate the following types of damages to help you get maximum compensation:
Economic Damages
When you suffer serious injuries, you can be burdened by high medical expenses that make it difficult for you to sustain yourself financially. You can receive compensation for almost any medical treatment, including medicine, physical therapy, surgery, imaging scans, laboratory tests, and more. Financial compensation can include future medical expenses to help you take care of any serious injury.
Other economic damages include lost wages that occur because you are unable to work full-time. When you have a severe personal injury, it can prevent you from doing your job. When this is the case, your past lost income, and future wages can be compensated for.
Property damage is another item you can claim when you file an NYC personal injury claim. This can happen in a car accident when the damage to your car is far beyond the limit of your car insurance coverage. Property damage can also happen if a malfunctioning product somehow destroys something you own if it caused an electrical fire or other unexpected accident.
Non-Economic Damages
Experienced personal injury lawyers can help you obtain compensation for non-economic damages such as pain and suffering. Unlike medical bills, these damages can’t be calculated based on receipts or invoices but with the help of a personal injury lawyer. This is because a multiplier is used based on how severe your injuries are. The multiplier is between one and seven. The total of your economic damages is multiplied by this number then added to the economic damages in personal injury claims.