What Does Pain and Suffering Mean in a Personal Injury Claim

Pain and suffering is often what I call the intangible, damage. Medical bills, it has a fixed price of this is how much your medical bills are. Your lost wages, same thing, but you have an amount of money. Pain and suffering is a lot more of a question of how much have you been through through this accident?

What kind of pain has this wrecked caused you? Mental anguish is very similar. What sort of emotional distress have you been through or the stress and inconvenience caused by this accident? And a lot of times, that’s where an insurance company will try to lower the value of your case.

A thing that’s important about pain and suffering is that it has to connect back to an injury. The pain and suffering and the mental anguish are directly the pain and suffering and mental anguish from an injury. And so it’s our job to stress that the pain and suffering that you’ve been through is not only very real, but it’s had a big impact on your life, and that’s where we can really increase the value of a case.