What damages can you recover in a Pennsylvania personal injury case?
Oct 20th, 2008 | By Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. | Category: Blogs, Common Injuries from Car Accidents, Pennsylvania Injury InformationIn PA personal injury cases, including car accident cases there are two categories of damages. Economic damages, sometimes known as out-of-pocket costs, consist of: wage loss, medical bills, car repair bills, and other costs that have a concrete value.
The other type of recoverable damages in a Pennsylvania injury case are called non-economic damages. Non-economic damages include the type of injuries that do not have a set dollar figure, commonly known as pain and suffering. We call these types of damages, human damages.
There are four types of human damages that people can recover for in a PA personal injury case, which include: pain and suffering, embarrassment and humiliation, loss of ability to enjoy the pleasures of life, and disfigurement.
PA Court Rule No. 223.3 defines the four different types of non-economic damages. Factors to be considered along with the human damages include the: plaintiff’s age, severity and permanency of the injuries, daily activities affected, amount of medical treatment, physical pain and mental anguish, plaintiff’s prior health, and disfigurement.
If you have suffered injuries from a serious car accident, truck accident, drunk driving accident, fall down, or construction injury due to someone else’s negligence contact an experienced PA and NJ injury lawyer at Saile & Saile LLP.
mr saile, please respond to the words in the first paragraph regarding medical bills,……
lets start here, in maryland there is a law, that has been on the books since 1899, called the “collateral source rule”,……
this collateral source rule says that regarless of medical insurance , other insurances, medicare, medicade, or any othe way the medical is or was paid, or not paid …… that the injured party has the absolute 100% legal right to the bottom line total dollar amount for all medical costs, down to the last tylenol and bed pan, and wiping of the ass, from the defendant,……. for all time, …
does pennsylvania have a similair law in place?
i know in my mom’s case, which you refused to answer me on in the chat area,… that her costs will go over 2 million before all is said and done, …, and under the collateral source rule, she is entitled to it all in cash , from the defendanbt, … plus the pain and suffering, whicj should go 10-15 million, based on similair cases in the nation,…
please respond as to the collateral source rule,