Personal injuries often occur when they’re least expected. Whether they are from a dog bite, a trip and fall incident in Opelousas’ South City Park, or a car crash while driving home on Interstate 49, these injuries can change the course of your life significantly and make a lasting impact. A serious accident can lead to expensive medical bills, lost wages due to missing work to recover your injuries, and other losses that you did not plan for.
Recoverable Damages in a Successful Personal Injury Case
Injured victims face a great deal of stress and uncertainty as they watch the medical bills mount and miss more and more time away from work. If this is your situation, you likely have financial and non-financial damages you could recover in a successful injury case. Our Opelousas personal injury lawyer can help you build a case where you could be compensated for:
- Medical expenses for your emergency care and hospitalization
- Rehabilitation treatment for your injuries (e.g., physical therapy)
- Lost wages during your recovery period
- Reduced earning capacity if your injuries stop you from working or make you take a new job
- Property damage
- Pain and suffering
- Scarring and disfigurement
- Temporary or permanent disability
- Impaired quality of life
- Psychological distress (e.g., anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder)
Our attorney will review all your damages, look for additional ones you may have, and calculate the numbers so that a value can be assigned to your case. We will use written documentation to prove losses that you paid out of your pocket. For others with no dollar value, such as pain and suffering, we will use standard formulas to come up with a figure.
