After a car accident, your potential compensation will be categorized into two groups: economic (money spent on repairs or medical bills) and non-economic (pain or emotional suffering).
The goal is to help you get back what you lost because someone else was careless. This could include money for car repairs, lost wages, and medical bills. New York law says you can only get money for non-economic damages (like pain and suffering) if the injury is serious, for example, breaking a bone, losing the use of a body part, or a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury.