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What Is the Legal Definition of Pain and Suffering?
Pain and suffering is a legal term often used in personal injury law. Find out more about how it may relate to your case.
Freight Damages Happen: 4 Ways to Increase Your Freight Claim Amount
If you work in the world of freight, then you know freight damages happen. Following these 4 tips will allow you increase your claim amount.
How to Document Your Personal Injury Expenses Before Filing a Claim
One of the essential elements of a personal injury claim is proving your injury and your damages. If you can’t prove how much the injury cost you, you may not win your lawsuit. So how do you do that? By...
How to Negotiate a Settlement for Pain and Suffering Damages
After you have been injured in an accident, you have the right to seek compensation for your damages. These damages are not just the amount of money you lost having to pay for medical expenses and vehicle repairs, but also the physical pain and emotional suffering you experienced. However, it...
What Can a Personal Injury Victim Recover in Damages for Pain and Suffering?
Recovering compensation for pain and suffering is not always easy. Insurance claims adjusters and defense lawyers will question the reality of emotional injuries and mental scars they cannot see.
What types of damages can a person claim?
A personal injury lawsuit allows you to hold the negligent driver accountable for the injuries and other losses you suffered because of your car accident. When filing a car accident claim, the two types of damages you can recover are economic and non-economic.
What Are 'Compensatory Damages' In Personal Injury Cases?
Learn what "compensatory damages" mean in a personal injury case.
4 Points You Need to Know When Filing a Personal Injury Claim
After suffering an injury that you believe was caused by someone’s neglect or intent, you may want to file an insurance claim to cover treatment costs, along with pain and suffering compensation. However, you will need to prove that the other person is responsible before you can collect damages. Here are four things to keep …
When Can You Sue for Punitive Damages?
In a personal injury case, a successful plaintiff is compensated financially according to the amount of his damages by what are called compensatory or actual damages. But these damages may not be the only type of damages available to a...
What Are Special Damages in a Personal Injury Lawsuit? |
Special Damages in Your Personal Injury Lawsuit When you read or hear about a personal injury lawsuit in the news, there is often some sort of damages
What to Expect from a Dog Bite Settlement
A dog bite settlement is primarily based on the victim, and their attorney, proving that they suffered real damages.
What are Punitive Damages and When Can You Recover them?
It’s not unusual in the aftermath of a personal injury case that has caused death or catastrophic injuries, for the injured person (or his family) to want not only justice, but to punish the wrongdoer as well. Punitive Damages The idea of punishment is not the focus of damages in civil law cases, however. Damages...
What Are Punitive Damages?
Victims who suffer harm as the result of another's egregious negligence or misconduct may be eligible to recover punitive damages. Learn more about these exemplary damages on The McClellan Law Firm's personal injury blog.
How Do Wrongful Death Actions Compare with Survival Actions?
A survival action is a civil lawsuit that survives an individual’s death and is brought by the decedent’s estate for personal damages the decedent suffered before dying. Recoverable damages are the same as in a personal injury lawsuit, which is brought when the person is still alive. In contrast, a wrongful death action is a…
Do Punitive Damages Exist In Drunk Driving Accidents?
When an accident victim is hurt, there are various categories of damages they can pursue. Does this include punitive damages?
How Are Pain Damages Calculated?
To evaluate the extent of pain and suffering, an attorney will work with medical professionals who understand the process.
What Are Liquidated Damages?
If you're signing a contract, it may contain a liquidated damages clause. But what exactly are liquidated damages? It's not just social media pariahs like Amy's Baking Company who have to deal with liquidated damages in contracts. More often than...
How Can a Damages Cap Affect Your Injury Case?
Although it may seem like the sky is the limit when it comes to personal injury damage awards, in many cases a damages cap may limit compensation in an injury case. A damages cap can apply in a number...
Why Are Injury Claims Worth So Much?
In this blog, I wanted to bring some insight into a special type of an injured person’s damages that should be accounted for in putting a dollar value on their injury claim.
