Immediately following your personal injury accident, you may be slammed with bills to recover your damages. With this, you may not foresee these bills slowing down anytime soon. This is when you may want to consider claiming future expenses in your personal injury lawsuit. Continue reading to learn whether you can get compensated for your future expenses and how one of the experienced Panama City personal injury lawyers at Manuel & Thompson, PA can help you in attaining this.
In my personal injury claim, can I get compensated for future expenses?
You may be eligible to receive financial compensation for your future expenses so long as you can prove that your injuries may take a hefty amount of time to improve, may remain the same over time, or may worsen over time. With this, the main costs that you may get covered are medical expenses and lost wages.
For your future medical expenses, you may make the following arguments:
- You may argue that you are required to undergo certain surgeries in the future.
- You may argue that you are required to undergo certain rehabilitative therapies in the future.
- You may argue that you are required to take certain prescription medications in the future.
And as far as your lost wages go, you may make the following arguments:
- You may argue that you cannot work for your employer for the coming weeks, months, or years.
- You may argue that you cannot work in your field of work for the coming weeks, months, or years.
- You may argue that you can no longer be the primary financial provider for your family.
How are future expenses calculated?
First of all, the amount of financial compensation that you require for your future medical expenses and lost wages is dependent on the type and seriousness of the injury you are suffering from. You may be able to calculate the amount of future expenses you are claiming by using a simple formula. Or, you may require an in-depth analysis by an expert. Rest assured, your attorney may be able to acquire an expert who may testimony in your claim proceedings.
Regardless, it is critical that you accurately value the cost of your future expenses. This is because you may not have another opportunity to recuperate additional financial compensation. And you do not want to be left with this financial burden when your accident was due to no fault of your own in the first place.
Without further ado, if a personal injury claim is something you wish to kickstart today, then you must retain the services of one of the skilled Panama City personal injury attorneys from Manuel & Thompson, PA. We await sitting down with you at your free initial consultation.
