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Sarasota Car Accident Damages and How to Calculate Them

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Often, people are afraid to file claims or lawsuits for car accidents out of fear of how much it will cost them to pursue. They also worry about how much they will get back in the event they do pursue a personal injury claim or lawsuit. Determining the amount of compensation that can be recovered in a car accident claim involves many factors. Today, we will show you how to use some of those factors to get an estimate of the value of your claim.

Three factors you can use to estimate the value of your personal injury claim are:

  • Medical bills and expenses
  • Lost income from work
  • Vehicle damages

Medical Bills and Expenses

Because your medical bills and expenses play a major part in your personal injury claim, you should begin here first.

Calculating your medical bills and expenses is relatively simple: Just add up your medical bills and expenses. Be sure to include the bills that you did not pay out of pocket. Take this total number to discover the least amount of compensation that is available to you.

In order to calculate what types of medical expenses can be incurred in the future, the expertise of a future medical expenses expert will often be necessary.

Lost Income from Work

Next, retrieve your pay records and stubs to calculate the income you missed out on due to your inability to work because of the car accident.

Take your hourly rate of pay and multiply it to the time you’ve missed from work to get an estimate of how much you could recover in lost wages.

Don’t forget to consider your vacation time, paid time off, and any other benefits you may have been entitled to if you were working during that time.

Vehicle Damages

Calculating your vehicle damages is the easiest of all. Simply take your vehicle to a trusted auto body shop to obtain a quote.

Get quotes from at least three trusted sources. If each quote is similar, take the average of all three quotes to discover the cost needed to repair your vehicle to get it back to its normal working condition.

Seek Legal Assistance for Discovering Other Areas to Factor into Your Claim

An experienced Sarasota car accident attorney can reveal other areas that are necessary to factor into your personal injury claim. These areas include:

  • Pain and suffering
  • Punitive damages
  • Loss of consortium
  • Loss of enjoyment of life

The attorney will be able to answer any car accident questions you have and possibly bring in experts to testify on your behalf to help you get the maximum amount of compensation.

Looking to File a Claim for Your Car Accident? Call Hale Law, Sarasota Personal Injury Car Accident Attorneys.

If you need to file a claim or lawsuit for your car accident, contact Hale Law at 941-735-4529.  Our Sarasota car accident attorneys will go to work immediately to investigate the accident and communicate with any insurance company on your behalf.  Call our office for a free attorney consultation at 941-735-4529. There’s never any fee unless and until we recover for you.

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