How Much is my Car Accident Case Worth?

If you have damages as a result of an accident where somebody else is at fault, then you're going to have value to your claim. And when we talk about damages, there are a couple different types real quick. There are economic damages. Jonathan, if you are out-of-pocket because you had to go to the doctor. You have a bunch of doctor bills or if you lost wages, you can't go to work. Those are economic damages. We can put a value on those. And you would include that. That'd be part of the value of your claim. There are also future economic damages. Jonathan, if your accident was really bad and you are going to have future medical treatment or you're going to have future lost wages, there'd be a value to that and that would factor into your claim.

If you suffered a permanent injury, this is under Florida law, but if you suffered a permanent injury then you can also ask for pain and suffering or damages that are intangible. They can be a little bit harder to quantify, but as a very, general, basic rule of thumb you can anticipate that somewhere between one and three times your economic damages that can be something that you can ask for potentially for pain and suffering. Those are kind of the frameworks and the factors and the things that we look at. You probably want to go ahead and talk to an attorney about it a little bit more in detail to bring your specific facts to the attorney so that the attorney can give you a little bit more specific answer as to what you're looking at. But I hope it still helps and points you in the right direction.

My name's Chris Denmon. I'm a partner at Denmon Pearlman and we answer questions if you don't really want to go through and you don't need to really set a full consultation with an attorney, but you just have a specific question, can't find it on the internet. Go ahead and ask us and we'll answer it for you.

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