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What is Personal Injury?

Personal injury is an area of law designed to protect those harmed by the mistakes, negligence, recklessness, malpractice, or inaction of others. Simply put, such a personal injury claim involves an injured individual seeking money for their pain and suffering, emotional distress, physica disability, employment limitations, or reimbursement of medical and other expenses, or other ensuing injury from a person, company, or institution believed to be at fault.

Those people who file personal injury claims maybe eligible to receive money damages, namely financial compensation resulting from their injuries.

How much is my claim worth?

There are two types of money damages, which ordinarily an individual will claim following an accident. The first type is called "special damages" or "economic damages''. These are determined quite easily so as to pay for:

Loss of earnings (work);

Damage to property;

Prescription charges;

Medical bills;

The cost of assistance to help with household chores, etc.

It is important that you always keep a note of any expenses that are incurred and if at all possible retain receipts.

The second kind of damage is called "general damages" or non-economic damages"'. These are damages that are paid for pain and suffering, emotional distress, permanent disability, or other types of damages. It is difficult to assess how much a claim is worth immediately after the accident, simply because it is likely that the injuries that have been caused will not have been fully healed. It is not always possible to give a certain settlement range until such time as the injuries have healed or at least are stable.

Damages are assessed by looking at the type of injury, the amount of treatment, the time of treatment as well as consideration for how long a person will suffer from the injury, including scarring and limitations of bodily function.

We here at Superior Law have in excess of 40 years of combined claim handling expense to be able to accurately assess these damages in order to obtain the most money for the injury.

What is Personal Injury?
The Claim Process
Workers Compensation