If you want to recover compensation for your car accident injuries, you’ll need to focus on two legal aspects of your case: liability and damages.
We’ve spent a lot of time on the blog discussing how to prove liability, which requires showing the other driver’s negligence and how their negligence caused the accident in question. While that can be challenging, showing the full extent of your damages can be just as difficult.
And if you skimp on demonstrating the harm that’s been caused to you, then you’ll recover far less than you deserve. This, in turn, can stall your recovery and leave you on a shaky financial foundation.
To avoid that sort of outcome, you have to be diligent in gathering and presenting evidence relevant to your damages. How, specifically, can you do that? Let’s take a closer look so that you get off on the right foot in building your car accident personal injury case.
There are multiple ways to approach damages in your car accident case. Here are some of the most effective strategies that you should consider implementing in yours:
- Retaining all bills and receipts: This might sound obvious, but many car accident victims miss out on compensation because they fail to carefully document the expenses related to their recovery and retain evidence of those costs. So, as you spend money, think about it if it’s tied to your wreck. If it is, even tangentially so, record it and keep any receipts, invoices, or bills related to it.
- Seeking treatment: While you definitely need to seek out medical care immediately after your accident, be sure to follow your doctor’s recommendations and secure any follow up care they think is needed. Also, if you start experiencing new symptoms, even minor ones, contact your medical provider. These symptoms could be a sign of something more severe, and you want to be able to show that you’re addressing it so that your losses regarding that specific injury become compensable.
- Documenting the impact: Your accident injuries are bound to have a significant impact on your daily life. Any lost enjoyment and pain and suffering you experience can be compensable in your case. These losses are subjective in nature, though, which is why it’s critical that you detail how your injuries have negatively impacted your life. This will create an emotionally charged picture for the jury in your case, which could increase your chances of recovering the compensation you want and need.
- Knowing the strength of your case: Most car accident personal injury cases resolve through settlement. To get the most out of yours, you have to have a command of the facts so that you know how aggressively you can push the other side toward the outcome that you want. If your case has weaknesses, then thorough preparation will ready you to counter the defense’s attacks and give you a better perspective on when it’s right to settle.
Fight for the compensation you deserve
A poorly handled personal injury case can leave you struggling to make ends meet and find a way to regain your health. You don’t want the pain, stress, and uncertainty associated with that kind of outcome. That’s why it’s imperative that you work to build a thorough and an aggressive case that puts you on course to securing the financial resources needed to reclaim your life.