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Motorcycle & Other Personal Injury cases

Pain

• You are entitled to money for the pain you have experienced and will experience in the future as a result of your injuries. Pain is rated as Severe, Moderate, Slight and Minimal. It is either constant or intermittent. Chronic pain is pain that will last for a long time or the rest of a person's life. Chronic pain is usually the most important part of your damages. It is difficult to place a monetary value on pain. Without the element of future pain your claim for damages relating to pain may have little value.

Suffering

• You are entitled to money for the suffering you have experienced and will experience in the future as a result of your motorcycle accident. Changes in life style, depression, anxiety, neurosis and problems with relationships frequently result from motorcycle accidents and injuries. It is difficult to place a value on suffering. However, you should receive compensation for your suffering.

Loss of Enjoyment of Life

• You are entitled to money damages for the loss of enjoyment of life that you have suffered as a result of your injuries. Loss of enjoyment of life includes the things that you used to do before the motorcycle accident, that you can no longer do, have a difficult time doing, or temporarily can no longer do, because of the accident. Examples of loss of enjoyment of life are: hobbies, sporting activities, dancing, going to dinner or the movies, intimate relations with a spouse or significant other, spending quality time with children, spouses, friends, or significant other, etc. Loss of enjoyment of life includes all of the things in your life that you used to do, but cannot do, have a hard time doing, or have temporarily been unable to do. You should be compensated for loss of enjoyment of life.

Loss of income

• You are entitled to money damages for any loss of income you suffer as a result of the motorcycle accident. If you will lose income in the future the amount of the loss will be calculated. However, future income losses must be reasonably certain to occur. Loss of earning capacity is either you temporary inability to work or a permanent disability restricting your ability to be competitive in the job market. A reasonable value for the loss of earning capacity should be paid by the defense.

Expenses

• You are entitled to money damages for all reasonable and necessary expenses for which you paid, or became obligated to pay, as a result of the motorcycle accident. The defense is obligated to pay for both past and future expenses. However, as in Loss of Income, the future loss must be reasonably certain to occur.

  Loss of Use of motorcycle
   

• You are entitled to money damages for the loss of use of your motorcycle. In some instances your will get a rental car, or be reimbursed for a rental car. In other instances you will just get the cash value of the loss of use of your vehicle. You usually get loss of you money until your motorcycle is repaired, or declared totaled by the insurance company.
   

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