In a personal injury lawsuit, there are two types of compensatory damages, special damages, also know as economic damages, and general damages, also know as non-economic damages. Economic damages are those which can be tied to a specific dollar value. ...
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Unfiled or Unpaid Taxes Can Hurt Your Personal Injury Claim
There are several ways in which having failed to file your tax returns can hurt your personal injury claim. If you are seeking lost income as part of your damages, you must prove your prior income. Typically, tax returns are ...
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Are Personal Injury Settlements Taxable?
The majority of personal injury claims are resolved by settlement rather than going all the way through trial. When considering a settlement offer, you need to know what the number will really mean to you and how much of what ...
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How Long Does It Take to Resolve a Personal Injury Claim in Georgia?
One of the first things you want to know when you are hurt is how long the process will take for your personal injury claim. The answer depends on the complexity of your case, the severity of your injuries, and ...
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Electric Scooter Accidents
Whether you love or hate electric scooters, they are here, and they are at the center of controversy over injuries and nuisances. If you have been hurt on or by an electric scooter, you may find it shockingly difficult ...
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Federal Court of Appeals Strikes Down Tennessee’s Statute Capping Punitive Damages
There are two types of damages that can be awarded in a civil case: punitive and compensatory. Compensatory damages are those designed to reimburse you for your actual losses.
Punitive damages are those intended to punish the wrongdoer. For example, ...
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Determining Liability in Personal Injury Cases
You may think that proving fault in a personal injury case is pretty clear-cut, but nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, some states have complex formulae for determining the degree to which a party or parties are ...
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Hopping on an E-Scooter? Think Twice!
As the number of e-scooters rapidly increases across the country, so is the number of people showing up in hospital emergency rooms with injuries from riding them.
American cities from Columbus, Ohio to Salt Lake City, Utah have seen as ...
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Causes of Back and Neck Injuries
Back and neck injuries can change your life, and you need to know how you can recover the compensation that will pay for your medical expenses, lost income and more. You may never get back to your old self, but ...
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What You Need to Know About Recovering Compensation for Amputation Injuries
Amputation injuries can be devastating. The initial injury can be traumatizing and the reality of facing a lifetime of rehabilitation and recovery without a limb can be even more difficult to deal with. Depression is common. Amputation injuries are life-long ...
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