Personal Injury Medical Bills

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To have a personal injury claim in Florida, there is no minimum amount of medical bills necessary. Medical bills are an important part of your case because when evaluating your case, as insurance companies do, they like to see what those medical bills amount to and have to say. That is not the end all, be all in your personal injury case in the state of Florida. Your damages include things like economic damages, those would be the medical bills in the past that we just discussed. There is also the need for future medical care in the future. You also have a wage loss component to your case if that comes into play and you missed work as a result of the injury sustained in the accident or the incident. Then you also have a claim for what’s called loss of future earning capacity. That would mean that the accident and your injuries have hindered you from performing and earning money in the way that you did in the past.

Above all those other economic dollars and cents type damages, there’s also damages in Florida for things called pain and suffering. It includes more than just pain and suffering. It includes inconvenience, what you had to go through as a result of the injuries, the medical care and treatment, and your ongoing issues. It includes your loss of capacity for enjoyment of life, those things that were near and dear to your heart that have been affected as a result of your injuries and your inability to perform as you did before. It also includes things like mental anguish and distress, what you have had to go through as a result of these trying times, these injuries that you’ve suffered, the medical care and treatment that you’ve had to endure.

While medical expenses are a part of your claim, there is no concrete money dollar value that you must have in order to present a claim in Florida. It is all encompassing on the person and the personal aspect of these cases and that’s why they’re called personal injuries. At Goldstein Buckley Cechman, Rice & Purtz, we work diligently to work up your damages, the personal aspect of your damages from day one on the case throughout the time that your case is resolved or tried in front of a jury.