These are the damages one can claim and expect to receive if they’ve been in an accident and suffered an amputation or a loss of a limb. The damages an amputee after an accident can expect to recover are both past and future medical expenses, past wage loss, and then future loss wages or diminished earning capacity. If you can no longer perform your work that you were able to perform before the accident and you now have to go work a different job because you physically can’t do your old job and you’re now making less money, we will claim that difference in your earning capacity for the rest of your work life which is usually, you know, 67 years old. So, we’ll claim both the medical bills past and future, your economic wage loss damages both past and future, but we will also claim additional accommodations for you. For example, if you need special accommodations at your home now, that can be claimed. If you need a prosthetic, we can claim that. If that prosthetic, given your age, is expected to only have a certain life to it. You may need money for prosthetics for the rest of your life. These are things we will hire experts to calculate and figure out for you over the course of your lifetime. And then you’re also entitled to money not just for payment of accommodations or medication bills or your past and future. You also get payment for what you’ve been through for your pain, your suffering, your heartache, your anguish, and your disfigurement. And it’s just that inconvenience that you now experience day-to-day because your body doesn’t work like it used to. That’s all compensable under Virginia law. And we seek full compensation for that. No need to worry, Call Cooper Hurley, the car crash experts. 333-3333.
