PERSONAL INJURY

We handle all type of injury cases 

Injury cases can be complicated.  If you have been in a accident or have been injured through no fault of your own, you need a lawyer to assess your case and help you determine your compensable losses.  

Types of Personal Injury Compensation

In a personal injury case, you are entitled to compensation from the individual or entity legally responsible for your harm. The legal term for this compensation is “damages.” Damages are broken into two groups: compensatory damages and punitive damages.

Damages

Compensatory damages are a form of compensation meant to monetarily replace what you have lost. This may involve with adding up medical bills, lost wages, or property damages.  These calculations can can be very difficult to figure out when placing a value on how your life has changed due to your pain and suffering as well as any physical limitations.  These are the types of compensatory damages you may be entitled to:

• Medical Treatment: reimbursement for past and future medical care is typically always included in the settlement you receive.

• Pain and Suffering: the physical pain and suffering that you have endured. This type of damages can be challenging to measure. Still, one of our experienced attorneys can consider various factors, such as your accident and injury severity, to help you come up with a monetary value.

• Lost Income: for the income you lost while recovering from your injury. You may also be awarded damages related to your “loss of earning capacity,” which means your inability to earn future income because of the accident.

• Property Damage: any property damaged or lost in the accident can likely be reimbursed. This, for example, can include your vehicles, items within the vehicle, and clothing. All of which will be appraised at fair market value.

• Emotional Distress: often combined with pain and suffering damages, but differs in that it relates to the mental anguish caused by your accident instead of the physical. Common symptoms include terror, anxiety, shock, sorrow, confusion, and lack of sleep.

• Loss of Enjoyment of Life: if you are now physically limited due to your injury, you may be unable to engage in hobbies, recreational activities, exercise, and any other activities you were previously able to enjoy.

• Loss of Consortium: these damages refer to the impact your injury has had on your relationship with your spouse, such as a loss of companionship and/or inability to engage in sexual intimacy.

Punitive damages may also be available

Punitive damages are meant to punish the defendant in that they are similar to fines. If the defendant’s actions are found to have been malicious or excessively careless, then they may be awarded.

The Law In Washington, DC

Statute of Limitation In Washington DC

In Washington, D.C., there is a deadline for filing a personal injury claim, also known as a statute of limitations.  You must file a lawsuit within three years of the date you were injured.  If this deadline is missed, your case will most likely be dismissed, and you lose your right to pursue compensation.

No-Fault  and PIP

Washington, D.C. has a “no-fault” auto insurance law system.  In this system, a drivers may use their own Personal Injury Protection, or PIP coverage, to cover a collision regardless of who is at fault.  A PIP policy provides coverage range anywhere from $2,500 to $100,000.  It must be noted that PIP insurance will only cover medical bills and a percentage of lost wages.  In Washington DC, making a PIP claim can be a waiver of your right to pursue a lawsuit against the at-fault driver.