If you were injured on someone else’s property and can prove their negligence led to your injury, you could be entitled to monetary damages. Although money alone cannot make up for the pain, inconvenience, and diminished quality of life the injury may have caused, it could reimburse your accident-related expenses and allow you to make the best of the situation.
Economic Damages for Actual Expenses
Injuries generate expenses, and the injured person often bears the brunt of those expenses immediately after a property accident. The party whose negligence created the condition that caused the injury is responsible for paying back the claimant for their out-of-pocket costs. Any monetary damages related to an injury sustained on someone else’s property may be recovered through a premises liability claim, including:
- All reasonable and necessary medical expenses
- Projected cost of future medical care
- Incidental expenses associated with medical treatment, such as travel costs, parking, prescriptions, and supplies
- Renovations to a home or modifications to a vehicle to accommodate an injury
- Costs of hiring someone to perform household services the injured person can no longer do, such as housecleaning, childcare, or yard maintenance
- Lost wages
- Value of fringe benefits used
- Diminished future earning capacity if the injury caused limitations that will impact the plaintiff’s working life in the future
An injured person must prove their financial losses by presenting receipts, invoices, insurance statements, tax returns, and employment records. A claimant seeking damages for future medical costs or reduced earning capacity in a premises liability case may need experts to weigh in on an appropriate amount.
