When you or your loved one suffered injuries due to someone else’s recklessness and you opt to pursue a reimbursement, therefore, what will be the value of your compensation? There are so many elements of damage are recoverable in personal injury claim such as:
What are the factors that go into determining suffering and pain damages?
Suffering and Pain
Pain may be a physical feeling ranging from annoying physical pain, nagging, sharp, throbbing, stinging, and burning, with the level of sensation that causes a partial or complete disruption of the victim’s ability to function. In addition to that, pain may also be emotional or mental anguish suffered because of an injury such as anguish, fear or anxiety, with an equal level of disruption to the victim’s degree of function.
Proving emotional and physical suffering and pain may be difficult since it’s very subjective and is very specific to the person suffering it. The severity and level differ from one person to another and can alter from the short-term or acute phase of the injury into a long-term or chronic condition. A Colorado Springs personal injury attorney can surely help you with this.
The easiest way to illustrate suffering and pain is to compare the victim’s lifestyle before as well as after the injury. How did the injury change the person’s function, whether it is physical or emotional, to do things at home, work and play? Will these changes resume into the future? For how long have these changes occurred?
One of the objectives to demonstrate suffering and pain is to make an everyday calendar of all your activities in life including home activities, play and work, and evaluate how these activities of everyday life have or haven’t changed before the injury. Check your daily calendar before and after the injury. What activities have resumed or not resumed prior to your injury? Consider checking the questions below:
Leave a Reply