Why do victims of an accident repeatedly inquire about the expected result from the assessment of their claim? Such inquiries reflect the victims’ desire to learn the cost associated with a given injury. Still, the same victims seldom realize what approach gets used during the assessment process.
Those assessing the damage study the specific information:
• Information from medical treatment providers
• Reports from the therapists (physical therapist and occupational therapist)
• Observations made by those that are noting and recording the victim’s rate of recovery
There are other factors considered, in light of gathered information which includes the nature and cause of the injury. The experts view the injury’s impact on the victim’s daily activities. Additionally, the compensation is based on how the victim’s recovery from this particular problem compares with the recoveries recorded for similar cases?
Compensatory damages that might be promised to victim:
• Payments to cover the cost of medical care, both now and in the future;
• Money to compensate for the accident’s impact on the life of the injured passenger or driver;
• Funds to cover the cost of housekeeping and home maintenance services;
• Funds for replacement or repair of damaged property;
• Money to compensate for the loss of a loved one’s guidance or companionship.
Possible pecuniary damages:
These would be meant to cover the costs of pain and suffering. The law arranges for victims to receive pecuniary damages in order to make their lives more easily endured. In Canada the amount money awarded for pecuniary damages cannot exceed $340,000.00.
Factors that might force a reduction in the assessed value of the victim’s injury:
If the victim had failed to seek immediate medical attention, then the amount assessed for the compensatory damages could get reduced by the court That failure would be viewed by the court as a means for allowing the extent of any sustained damage to expand beyond what it was at the time of the accident.
Findings brought forward by the defendant’s lawyer might also push the judge to reduce the injury’s assessed value on the grounds of contributory evidence. The law declares that the amount awarded to anyone affected by a personal injury depends on the nature of the plaintiff’s own actions, in the moments leading up to the accident.
Did any of those actions aid creation of the resulting loss or injury? If so, then the plaintiff contributed to the accident-caused losses. If the court has unearthed such a finding, then the case for the other party’s negligence gets weakened to a marked degree. If a client were to hide from an injury lawyer in Medicine Hat the truth about such actions, the lawyer’s assessments would most certainly fall above the true value of the client’s injury or losses.