The Injury With No Equivalent Value
Posted by Emery Ledger on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Under: Law
Personal injury is a legal term for injury of the body, mind and emotion. When you are filing for a personal injury claim, you would deliberately include medical expenses, lost wages, and damaged properties. These are losses by which you can have a counter economic value. Perhaps, a few dollars won't hurt for the riches. Yet, these are just add ons to injury you will suffer when you got severe injuries. That is psychological/emotional injury.
One of the result of an injury especially to family or couples is loss of consortium. It is an after effect of fatal injury that may have given permanent disability to either wife or husband. Having an injury may limit your capacity as a wife or as a husband and thus will weaken the relationship between the two of them.
Loss of consortium may result to divorce and other relationship struggles. It will affect the children and the way the family will be living. Yet, you can't never find a dollar figure for that loss, can you?
Pain and suffering from a fatal accident can also result to scars in the body. It can lessen self confidence but will increase inferiority. Perhaps, the most devastating injury is when you think you can't face any body else anymore. It can be in two ways: you don't want them to pity you or you don't want them to embarrass you. Injuries can make you create your own world, far from the people you use to talk and mingle with everyday.
Self confidence is one of the most important psychological need for it will make a person develop himself to become mature and independent. When you lose it you could probably deprive yourself of what else life could offer.
Another suffering a person injured in an accident is dependence. You can't do it on your own anymore. It can make you feel pity for yourself and you will feel being a burden to others. Feeling that way is troublesome. You will lose the spirit to live. Again you may enclose yourself in a dark empty room- a room of your own.
The question now is how will you incorporate psychological/emotional injuries in your claim? You can ever measure its impact to the injured party. You can't also deny that they will feel it that way. That's why most personal injury lawyers will always add pain and suffering when making draft for settlement negotiations. It is not just payment for bodily pain but an emotional struggle an injured person will have to live by.
Thus, everybody should always take extra safety in everything he or she does. You may pay for the physical injuries, or medical expenses,for therapy and other clinical tests but you can never pay something that lies within the person. Counseling may do great but it will take time and effort plus the involvement of everybody that surround the person. There is no need to take the risk, because there will always be an injury with no equivalent value.
One of the result of an injury especially to family or couples is loss of consortium. It is an after effect of fatal injury that may have given permanent disability to either wife or husband. Having an injury may limit your capacity as a wife or as a husband and thus will weaken the relationship between the two of them.
Loss of consortium may result to divorce and other relationship struggles. It will affect the children and the way the family will be living. Yet, you can't never find a dollar figure for that loss, can you?
Pain and suffering from a fatal accident can also result to scars in the body. It can lessen self confidence but will increase inferiority. Perhaps, the most devastating injury is when you think you can't face any body else anymore. It can be in two ways: you don't want them to pity you or you don't want them to embarrass you. Injuries can make you create your own world, far from the people you use to talk and mingle with everyday.
Self confidence is one of the most important psychological need for it will make a person develop himself to become mature and independent. When you lose it you could probably deprive yourself of what else life could offer.
Another suffering a person injured in an accident is dependence. You can't do it on your own anymore. It can make you feel pity for yourself and you will feel being a burden to others. Feeling that way is troublesome. You will lose the spirit to live. Again you may enclose yourself in a dark empty room- a room of your own.
The question now is how will you incorporate psychological/emotional injuries in your claim? You can ever measure its impact to the injured party. You can't also deny that they will feel it that way. That's why most personal injury lawyers will always add pain and suffering when making draft for settlement negotiations. It is not just payment for bodily pain but an emotional struggle an injured person will have to live by.
Thus, everybody should always take extra safety in everything he or she does. You may pay for the physical injuries, or medical expenses,for therapy and other clinical tests but you can never pay something that lies within the person. Counseling may do great but it will take time and effort plus the involvement of everybody that surround the person. There is no need to take the risk, because there will always be an injury with no equivalent value.
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