What can I be compensated for in a personal injury case?
Stephen J. Phillips: Damages come in two types: economic damages, such as medical bills, future care and lost wages, and non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, loss of normal life and disability.
Attorney Stephen J. Phillips · Personal Injury FAQs · 50-second answer
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The elements of damage in a personal injury case like a motor vehicle collision or car crash are really twofold. There’s economic damages and there’s what’s called non-economic damages. On one hand, economic damages are things like medical bills or the cost of future medical care, potentially lost wages if you lost time from work. On the other hand, there’s what we call non-economic damages. Non-economic damages are things like pain and suffering, loss of normal life or disability, the items of damage that make us who we are as human beings. Those are really the two types of damages in these types of cases.
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