What You Need To Know About Getting Long-Term Car Accident Compensation
For minor car accidents, the damage done is relatively easy to see and calculate. However, for more severe crashes, the impacts can continue to accumulate for the rest of a victim’s life.
If you’ve been involved in a McAllen car accident, you may be facing considerable long-term challenges and expenses. Keep reading to learn about a few ways that car wrecks can impact you long-term and how a McAllen personal injury attorney can help.
Getting Disability Compensation
We all know the word “disability,” but how many of us know specifically what it means? According to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), a person with a disability is someone who “has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, a person who has a history or record of such an impairment, or a person who is perceived by others as having such an impairment.”
The amount of compensation available for a disability will be calculated based on your income prior to the crash. In order to qualify for disability compensation after a car accident, you will need to prove that you fall into the category defined by the DOL and that your disability was caused by your car accident.
A car accident lawyer can help you get the evidence you need to make a strong claim for relief.
Getting Relief for Reduced Quality of Life
Reduced quality of life is a bit more complicated than disability because, rather than having a specific cost that can be calculated, a reduction in your quality of life doesn’t correspond to an exact dollar amount. Instead, compensation for reduced quality of life is included as a part of your non-economic damages, meaning all of the damages you suffered that don’t have a specific price or cost.
Compensation for non-economic damages is usually calculated based on the amount of economic damages you sustained; economic damages are damages that do have a specific price. The suffering and reduced quality of life you faced due to the crash will factor into how much non-economic compensation you are owed.
A McAllen attorney can help you prove the suffering you experienced and fight for compensation.
Fighting for Reduced Earning Power Compensation
Reduced earning power is given to car accident victims who have been impaired by a car accident but not substantially enough to qualify as a disability. For instance, if you’re injured in such a way that you can’t continue your current work but you can continue to work in a less physically demanding job, any reduction in the amount of money you can feasibly earn could qualify you for a reduced earning power claim.
To calculate how much you may be owed in reduced earning power compensation, you can subtract the amount you’re projected to earn after your injury from the total amount you were making prior to the crash.
A personal injury lawyer can help you determine your projected earnings and make a claim for relief.
Get Justice and Compensation for Your Car Accident With Villalobos Law Firm
If you’ve been involved in a minor car or truck accident, you may be able to get relief without help from an attorney. However, if you were injured in a crash, you should consider reaching out to a lawyer for help making sure your long-term expenses are covered.
At the Villalobos Law Firm, we treat each client as an individual, and we will work tirelessly to get you all of the compensation you may be owed.
