Damages

There are two types of damages that you are allowed to recover in a personal injury case.

The first type is the economic damages. These are typically calculated first and include your loss of earnings or earning capacity and your loss of property or damage to your property. Economic damages also include your past and future medical costs which are sometimes the most important but difficult to prove. Jorge Luis Colón, P.A. will work with you and your doctors to ensure that all of your economic damages are accounted for and will aggressively seek recovery based on realistic projections of these damages.

The other type of damages are the non-economic damages, which include things such as the effect of pain in your daily life, the mental suffering, physical disfigurement, and the loss of enjoyment of the everyday activities that you previously enjoyed. These values vary greatly from case to case and require a great deal of communication between the client and the attorney. In our practice, we take the time to get to know our clients and understand their pre-accident lifestyle so that we can properly address the devastation that has resulted from someone else's negligenc