When somebody slips and falls on another person or entity’s property, the types of general personal injury damages that they may recover include elements of lost earnings and medical as well as noneconomic damages such as pain, mental anguish, or impairment. A personal injury lawyer could help a plaintiff recover adequate compensation for McKinney slip and fall damages and hold the negligent party accountable.
Loss of Household Services
One damage that is sometimes overlooked but can be very important in the right case is the loss of household services, which are the household duties that were done by the injured person to take care of their home or family, things they may have to hire out now. That can be everything from doing the laundry to mowing the yard and anything else that can be assigned a value.
In appropriate cases, such as catastrophic ones, loss of household services can be a significant component of recoverable damages. Damages such as pain or mental anguish are real and change a person. For instance, there is a demonstrated link between pain and depression and between pain and a person’s outlook on life. A catastrophic, chronic, long-lasting, nagging, and inflaming pain inherently changes people, and that psychological damage can be recovered in slip and fall cases.
