How a Car Accident Lawyer Can Help You Fight For Fair Compensation After a Serious Injury
Serious injuries from a car accident can be life-changing. You face not only physical health concerns but emotional distress, potential loss of income, and mounting medical bills. Fair compensation is essential to help you pay for your medical bills and other damages, but the legal process can feel daunting. Turning to a trustworthy car accident attorney can help alleviate some of the stress, confusion, and frustration. At Keller & Keller, we fight for you and your right to fair compensation. Don’t face it alone; get guidance from our skilled car accident lawyers with decades of experience handling similar cases in Indiana, New Mexico, and Michigan.
What Is Considered Fair Compensation After a Serious Accident Injury?
Many factors affect what a fair amount of compensation would be for your car accident injuries. An insurance adjuster—or, if necessary, a judge or jury—would consider factors like the severity of your injuries, how they impact your daily functioning, and whether you can return to your previous line of work. You may also seek non-economic damages related to the emotional and mental distress you experienced as a result of the accident and your injuries.
Potential Types of Compensation
There are many types of compensation you might pursue after a car accident injury. Depending on the specifics of your case, you might seek damages for:
- Past and future medical bills, including hospitalizations, surgeries, and care for delayed injuries
- Physical therapy or other rehabilitation
- Medications
- Home modifications necessary for adapting to life with a disabling injury
- In-home care
- Long-term or permanent disability
- Loss of income
- Loss of future wages
- Mental and emotional distress
- Pain and suffering
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Loss of affection or companionship
- Property damage
- Punitive damages (in some cases)
How Keller & Keller Has Helped Other Victims of Serious Car Accidents
In one particularly serious auto accident case involving a personal vehicle and a negligent commercial driver, Keller & Keller represented a husband and wife who sustained life-threatening injuries as a result of the accident. Their medical bills totaled $400,000, with ongoing treatment anticipated for the injuries. The husband required major orthopedic surgeries, multiple hospitalizations, and extensive physical therapy. The wife, in retirement, had orthopedic and internal injuries and required a colostomy bag. The husband’s injuries prevented him from returning to work, so the couple also lost his income.
Clearly, the impact of these injuries went far beyond the tremendous physical pain of injuries. The loss of income, mental anguish, and pain and suffering changed their lives drastically.
Keller & Keller were able to identify the many ways the accident impacted this couple and fought for a fair settlement by demonstrating the commercial driver’s negligence. As a result, the couple received an award of $5.75 million.
Every Car Accident Case Is Unique
No car accident case has an easy, set amount of compensation that victims can receive. To add to the complexity of these cases, non-economic damages like pain and suffering can be calculated in different ways. When victims have severe injuries, their future medical care and loss of future wages complicate the case further.
In addition, a case’s available evidence (or lack thereof) differs on a case-by-case basis, which may limit or increase the amount of potential compensation available. Despite these complications, it’s still possible to seek fair and even significant settlements in serious car accident injury cases.
There is no set amount for damages in a serious accident case, and non-economic damages like pain and suffering can be calculated in different ways (usually using the per diem or multiplier methods). When injuries are severe, the impact of future medical care and loss of future wages also complicates the case and must be looked at on an individual basis. In addition, the available evidence (or lack of evidence) also differs in each case and could potentially impact the compensation. Despite complications, however, fair and even significant settlements in strong car accident injury cases are still possible.
An experienced personal injury lawyer who has dealt with serious injury cases can build a strong case to pursue compensation on your behalf. They can understand the specifics of your case and determine which types of compensation you might be eligible to seek in a personal injury claim.
Keller & Keller Can Fight for Fair Compensation for Your Serious Accident Injuries
With over $1 billion in won in their cases, a zero-fee guarantee, and a 95% success rate, Keller & Keller is a legal team you can trust. We’ll work hard to increase the potential value of your claim and fight for a fair recovery so you can focus on your physical and emotional recovery.
