Pedestrian Accident Case Value

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Determining the value of a pedestrian accident injury claim in Florida depends on many factors. It starts with the economic part of your damages, the medical expenses, the wage losses if you had to miss work as a result of the incident, the need for future medical care and treatment and what that’s going to cost, the loss of what’s called future earning capacity which means your ability to earn money in your chosen field may have been affected. Those economic damages including things like what you may have had to pay other folks to handle around your house while you were laid up or unable to attend to certain things that you normally would have done yourself.

It not only includes those economic things to discover value, but it includes things that are called non-economic damages, what is known as pain and suffering. It certainly encompasses those two elements, but it also encompasses things like the loss of capacity for enjoyment of life, those non-economic things you can’t necessarily plug into a computer and put a dollars and cents valuation on. We work through you to put a valuation and a dollars and cents number on that claim based upon us hitting the ground running with you early, learning who you were, learning how this accident has affected you, and learning about what it’s going to take for you to try and make your way back to your full self, knowing all full and well that most injuries are never going to get 100% better.

The valuation of your claim also goes into what’s called comparative fault in Florida. Who was at fault for the accident? Just because someone is deemed to be at fault for the accident doesn’t mean that parties can’t share fault for the accident. Getting an attorney involved in your pedestrian accident case is very important not only for putting the dollars and cents valuation on those economic but also those non-economic damages. It is vitally important to find someone that knows the law so that we can make sure we are holding fully responsible that person that struck you in their automobile while you were walking down the road and not have some jury or some insurance company try to blame you for something that you know you haven’t done other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

At Goldstein Buckley Cechman, Rice & Purtz, we are committed to working through all those factors of the case with you to put together the most comprehensive and detailed analysis we can to try and get your case resolved early for full value but if not, to take your case through the process in order to seek justice for you.