The South Carolina Accident and Injury Attorneys at the Strom Law Firm, LLC focus on helping you secure fair compensation for your accident related injuries.
An accident can happen in a split second and leave you with lost wages, mounting medical bills, and permanent impairment.
Our firm will fight for fair compensation for your injuries.
Obtaining Fair Compensation For Your South Carolina Accident Claim
We will fight for compensation to reimburse you for your medical bills and lost wages that resulted from your accident related injuries.
Depending upon the severity of your accident related injuries, you may be entitled to an award of the costs for future medical care for permanent injuries. While this may require the use of expert testimony, the Strom Law Firm, LLC has the resources to fight for compensation for your claim.
Depending upon the facts of your case, we may also seek damages for loss of enjoyment of life. Most states allow additional recovery when an injury interferes with your ability to lead a normal life. Even with an elderly client, a claim may be made due to your inability to play with your grandchildren, to walk and exercise as you did prior to the accident, to communicate meaningfully with others, or to engage in pastimes one previously enjoyed.
In the event that your spouse is affected, we may also file a claim for loss of consortium.
Although one might not think that an injury such as mental anguish is something that will be addressed or compensated in a civil action, this is not so. Monetary damages may be awarded for a nursing home resident’s (or his or her survivor’s) pain, suffering, disfigurement, and impaired enjoyment of life. Damages awarded for the pain someone suffers can be for both physical and mental pain.
Mental pain injuries for which one may recover damages can include the following:
- Fear of the consequences of an injury while awaiting help;
- Fear experienced in the period between realizing an incident likely to cause injury was going to occur and the time of occurrence;
- Fear experienced after an injury about what else could have happened;
- Anxiety about one’s physical health and future well-being;
- Fear of the need for future surgery as a result of one’s injuries;
- Fear of increased vulnerability to future injury;
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Pain and suffering is the term of art used for damages designed to compensate someone for his or her injuries that are physical and emotional in nature. This is contrasted with out of pocket damages like lost wages and medical bills.
Punitive damages may be awarded in cases where it is shown that a nursing home engaged in malicious or reckless conduct. In such cases, it is sometimes argued that the nursing home resident was deprived of his or her statutory rights.
Because injured nursing home residents are generally older, in poor health, and have relatively short life expectancies, damage elements that are common in other personal injury cases, such as lost earning capacity, future pain and suffering, and future medical expenses, will not be as significant. Awards against nursing homes are comprised for the most part of punitive damages, and damages for mental anguish, pain and suffering experienced by the injured person, medical expenses, and the loss of affection and companionship by the surviving spouse or children.
The attorneys and support staff at the Strom Law Firm, LLC. can help ensure you receive fair compensation for all your injuries; current and future. Even those cases which do not involve life altering injuries or complex legal questions are often defended aggressively by insurance companies. The insurance companies who most often defend at-fault drivers spend millions of dollars teaching their adjusters how to successfully deny claims.
At the Strom Law Firm, LLC, in South Carolina our attorneys are prepared to help you recieve compensation for your accident related injuries.Call us today for a free consultation to discuss the facts of your case. 803.252.4800
