Unfortunately, you may not be one of the lucky ones who gets to walk away from your personal injury accident and pretend like it never happened. Rather, the damages it has left you with may affect you every day, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Eventually, this may develop into your loss of enjoyment of life. Follow along to find out how to prove your lost enjoyment of life and how a proficient Pasco County personal injury lawyer at Merricks Law Group, P.A. can help you recover from all your incurred damages fairly.
How do I prove my lost enjoyment of life in my claim?
The first element for proving your lost enjoyment of life is to establish your pre-accident activities. This may be as simple as videos of you working out at the gym, a physical activity you once considered one of your favorite hobbies. Or, photos of you at large social gatherings with your friends and family members, an indication that you were once a very outgoing individual.
Secondly, you must demonstrate the drop-off in these activities post-accident. Here, you may collect medical records of your diagnosed bodily injuries, along with testimonies from your treating medical professionals that exercising and other physical activities are no longer possible or safe for you.
Also, you may gather statements from your loved ones, who may have noticed your lack of attendance at social gatherings or your no longer wanting visitors at your home. They may allude to the fact that you now struggle with social anxiety, depression, or embarrassment of your mobility issues and physical disfigurements.
These examples say that your loss of enjoyment of life means that your incurred injuries have negatively affected your physical, emotional, and social well-being. Overall, this subjective, intangible damage may have quantifiable economic losses that you deserve compensation for.
What other non-economic damages can I recover?
Aside from your lost enjoyment of life, you may also struggle with non-economic damages daily. Though they are more difficult to prove, you must not shy away from claiming them in your personal injury lawsuit, especially if they truly affect you. Please consider whether these other non-economic damages have impacted you:
- Your physical pain and emotional suffering.
- Your mental anguish and trauma (i.e., anxiety, fear, stress, etc).
- Your permanent physical changes on your facial features and body parts.
- Your loss of consortium (i.e., severed companionship, lost intimacy, etc).
- Your loss of quality of life (i.e., inability to find fulfillment or purpose in life).
- Your reputational damage (i.e., change in the way society views and treats you with a disability).
Before this gets too much, please seek the guidance and counsel of a talented Pasco County personal injury lawyer from Merricks Law Group, P.A. We will work to the best of our ability to minimize or eliminate this mess from your immediate worry.
