Personal Injury

In personal injury cases, plaintiffs can recover damages for a multitude of items, including:

• Medical Bills
  If the accident you have been involved in requires you to seek medical treatment or to be hospitalized, the law provides that you are entitled to be reimbursed the medical expenses you incur. This includes the treatment you are forced to seek immediately after the accident, as well as all future medical treatment the doctors state you will require in the future to treat your injuries.
• Lost Income
  If the injuries you have sustained as a result of someone else’s conduct have caused you to be unable to work or have otherwise caused you to lose income, the law provides that the person causing the accident must compensate you for the income lost as a result of their negligent act causing injury.
• Severe Emotional Distress
  Not all injuries are visible. Accidents can cause mental injuries that are serious and in some cases, more serious than the physical injuries. Mental injuries can include the inability to sleep, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, etc. Just as physical injuries can require treatment for years into the future, so can mental injuries, and the cost for ongoing treatment is recoverable.
• Property Damage
  In many accidents, such as automobile accidents, bodily injury is not the only type of damage suffered. Where property is damaged as a direct result of another’s negligent actions, you may be entitled to recover the value of the property lost or the cost to repair the item that was damaged.
• Loss of the Pleasures of Life Damages
  This is a type of damage that encompasses and compensates for activities that a person can no longer do as a result of injuries sustained in an accident. This may be the inability to play with children, perform or engage in a sport, have intimate relations with a spouse, etc.
• Pain and Suffering
  Injuries rarely occur without pain, and the pain associated with an accident may be compensated, separately and in addition to other damages listed here. The value that is placed on pain and suffering damages is different from case to case; however, the more serious and painful the injury, the greater the pain and suffering damages that may be awarded.

Common types of personal injury accidents that the attorneys at Anderson Hayes can assist with are:

• Automobile accidents
• Boating accidents
• Dog bites
• Slip and fall accidents
• Wrongful death
• Semi-Truck accidents
• Assaults
• Stolen property
• Accidents resulting from poorly managed property