Factors that affect Compensation Computations in a Car Accident

In a roadway accident in California, it is usually the case that someone, be it the driver or a passenger, to have obtained an injury because of an impact, a fall, or a piece of heavy material crushing one of his body parts.

Physical Injuries

This injuries range from simple and minor bruises, taking only the minority of the amount of compensation, to injuries requiring extensive medical intervention such as spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries, raking millions of dollars worth of medical procedures such as MRI’s, invasive neurosurgeries, and expensive medicines directed to the brain. Other than the injuries, a car accident also has “hidden” characteristics that only a car accident attorney could see. In Los Angeles, most of the car accidents involve, in one way or another, businessmen, employees, or workers rushing toward work. When this happens the most obvious consequence of the injury is that the person will not be able to go to work.

Wages

The inability of the victim to go to work because of the accident is called a “wage loss” claim. This is part of the breakdown of the total amount of compensation that the victim claims from the defendant.

Wage loss does not only constitute the loss of working hours during that particular day however. Wage loss can extend to as many days as possible, for as long as the inability of the employee to work and to earn money is directly caused by the injury that was acquired in the accident.

Noneconomic Damages

Noneconomic damages, on the other hand, are computed by a car accident attorney in Los Angeles in a much trained manner. This is the most difficult to gauge among all of the damages incurred by the victim since it does not pose any tangible standard of measurement for the lawyers to base their computation in.

The indiscrete nature of non-economic damages is because of the inherently psychological/emotional traits it possesses. Common claims for non-economic damages are

(1) the anxiety produced by the accident

(2) emotional loss because of the death of a loved one

(3) decreased self esteem because of bodily disfigurement or acquisition of a disability.