What Compensation Can You Receive In A Pedestrian Accident?
If you're involved in a pedestrian accident, it can be a life-changing experience. You can suffer major injuries, lose income, and have emotional distress about the accident. Thankfully, there are laws in place to help victims recover when someone else was negligent in causing the accident. Here are some of the damages you may be able to receive if you file a lawsuit regarding your pedestrian accident.
Medical Bills
You are going to have a lot of medical bills on the road to recovery, which can quickly pile up depending on how severe the injury is and how long you will need to recover. You may find that you're entitled to be reimbursed for your medical expenses and other associated costs. This includes ambulance bills, hospital bills, surgery costs, medication, and physical therapy
Lost Wages
A serious injury is going to cause you to not be able to work for quite some time. Thankfully, all those wages are not lost forever, since you can recover lost wages with a personal injury lawsuit. You will need to prove how much money you lost as a result of not being able to work and may be entitled to lost wages for sick days and personal days that you had to take. You've earned those days, and you could receive the cash equivalent of your salary by having to use them to recover from your accident.
Pain and Suffering
Pain and suffering damages are hard to calculate, but it's something that can be requested if you've endured a lot of pain as a result of the accident. Your emotional stress is not something that can be ignored, and you'll need to work with a lawyer to put a dollar amount on how much that stress is worth. Your lawyer can use previous cases to come up with a fair estimate of what a judge would award for pain and suffering damages in a case like yours.
Disfigurement and Disability
Did your accident cause you to have a temporary or permanent disability? Any type of injury leaves you with being unable to do the things you're typically able to do, and you can receive compensation for it. Disfigurement is also considered, which can include scars and other ways that your body has been permanently damaged.
Punitive Damages
Punitive damages are not always awarded, since they are used as a form of punishment in some cases. If the defendant is found to be extremely negligent in their actions, a judge may award you punitive damages
Contact an accident law firm like Lawson Law, P.C. to learn more.