If you overvalue your damages when you present your personal injury claim after an accident, that undermines your credibility and the credibility of your case. You need a Board Certified Houston personal injury lawyer with years of experience calculating accurate values for your accident damagesto help you ensure that you don’t sink your case with overvalued claims. To receive any financial compensation for your accident losses, you must prove both the existence of these injuries or losses and their accurate monetary value.
Special damages, the more tangible injuries and losses from an accident, may be fairly simple to prove and valuate. The evidence regarding the value of these damages might be readily available in the form of medical bill invoices, pay stubs for lost wages, and vehicle repair bills.
General Damages and the Need for Thorough Proof
But for other less tangible loses, like a reduced earnings capacity due to disabilities received from the accident, you won’t have evidence regarding their value readily available. And you have to account for a host of variables like the chances of remaining in that job, the likelihood of promotions, possible financial benefits from future education or training, and so on.
Our Houston personal injury lawyers realize that damages claims for items like pain, suffering, emotional anguish, disfigurements, and loss of consortium are even more difficult to value in monetary terms. What IS the monetary value of a lost family relationship? How can you put a price tag on a lost limb or serious facial disfigurement that will deeply affect the rest of your life? But to make a valid personal injury claim in court you must do so – and convincingly too. The court can’t give you back your limb or original face; it can only order monetary compensation.
The monetary value of disfigurements, emotional trauma, or pain might for instance be greater for a child – who must live with them longer than an adult. But proving these values for any accident victim might require the testimony of qualified expert witnesses from the medical or psychiatric fields.
Don’t let Your Claim for Personal Injury Damages get thrown out of Court. Contact the Board Certified Houston Personal Injury Lawyers at Denena Points, PC to help You Accurately Value Your Accident Damages
We have more than 15 years of experience helping clients make successful personal injury damages claims. We gather evidence and thoroughly prepare your case based upon the specific facts and circumstance of your situation. We know how to present your claims so that they will be understood and accepted by the defendant’s insurers and by the court and jury. And with over 15 years in practice, we could help you locate the qualified expert witnesses you might need to prove the value of the intangible damages in your case.
Call us today at 281-369-4363 to get your free, no obligation legal consultation. Or just fill out our online contact form. Let the Houston personal injury lawyers at Denena Points, PC help you find your road to a full financial recovery after a traumatic accident has changed your life.