What Are The Types Of Specific Damages In A Personal Injury Lawsuit?

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Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media

“So, let me ask this question then. You mentioned earlier that if people have the doctor’s appointments, doctor’s reports, the cost of the medical care, and all that adds up…is that the extent of the case…that they’re going to get reimbursed?”

Andrew Dósa – Personal Injury Attorney – Alameda County, CA

“The way things work is that there are two component parts to the damages claim of an injured person. There are general damages and special damages. Why they’re described that way is not terribly important. Special damages are the actual number damages. If you have $2,000 of medical bills, $2,000 is your number, and that’s a special damage, and a specific identifiable damage. There’s not any dispute that that’s the billing. There may be a dispute about whether all that treatment was related to the injury, but that’s a secondary fight that the insurance company will undoubtedly give to me. The second special damage that’s most common is wage loss. So, a client who’s missed four days of work because they were just too uncomfortable or didn’t have the time or were miserable or whatever it was, I can identify what their wage loss was. They were working four shifts, they had six hours each shift, and they were making $27 an hour. 27 times each number of hours, each number of shifts, gives you a yield of a specific wage loss.”

Ray Hrdlicka – Host – Attorneys.Media

“Right. Specific data, it’s very objective. Can’t argue about it.”