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What Can I Get If I Win My Baltimore Personal Injury Case?

What Can I Get If I Win My Baltimore Personal Injury Case?

The law currently in effect in Baltimore MD allows for the recovery of economic and non-economic damages. Baltimore injury and car accident attorney Eric T. Kirk frequently advises clients involved in serious automobile accidents that understanding compensation is crucial. Individuals can seek monetary damages, which are categorized into economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages cover quantifiable losses such as lost wages, future earning capacity, and medical expenses, including rehabilitation and assistive devices. These damages can be substantial after a catastrophic accident. Non-economic damages address the more subjective impacts of an injury, such as emotional distress, pain and suffering, and the inconvenience caused by disfigurement. These damages recognize the broader effects of an injury on a person’s quality of life and the activities they can no longer enjoy.

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Maryland law calls compensation in a personal injury case damages or money damages. There are two types of damage that are applicable to a personal injury case. Economic and non-economic. Economic damages are hard number calculations, things that you can whip out a calculator and quickly tabulate. Things like lost wages, things like the payment of medical expenses or perhaps out of pocket expenses. Non-economic damages are a little more nebulous and a little more difficult to pin down. Included here are things like physical, emotional, or psychological pain, distress or discomfort. After a Maryland personal injury case, an injured individual is entitled to collect both economic damages and non-economic damages in an amount fixed by a jury.