What would I be able to receive compensation for in a personal injury case?

Stephen D. Phillips: Damages in Illinois include economic loss, meaning medical bills and lost wages, and the human losses: pain and suffering, disability and disfigurement, and mental anguish.

Attorney Stephen D. Phillips · Personal Injury · 36-second answer

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If you’re injured as a result of someone else’s negligence, the elements of damage in Illinois are your economic loss, your medical bills, and your lost wages, time you miss from work, as well as what’s called pain and suffering, disability and disfigurement and mental anguish. Those are the human losses, and that’s the harm caused to you as an individual, as a person.

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