If you suffer from chronic pain or fibromyalgia, you may want to seek legal remedies to compensate for your pain. Fortunately, you can sue for the injuries that caused or exacerbated your conditions. However, this may lead to a very heated legal battle, since permanent injures command high settlement or verdict amounts.
If you have been injured by the negligence or intentional actions of another person, then you may have a personal injury case. If your injuries result in chronic pain, then you should be able to recover damages that will compensate you for that pain.
Fortunately, personal injury lawyers are often only paid if a case is favorably settled or won in court. This is called a contingency fee. So you generally won’t have to pay for an an injury lawyer’s services unless your case is successful.
Suing With a Prior Condition
Under the law, a person who causes another person’s injury is liable for the economic damages they cause to the injured person. For example, if a person is injured in a car accident, the person that caused the accident will be responsible for the injured person’s medical bills, lost wages, and other economic damages, as well as for the injured person’s pain and suffering.
If a person has a condition that makes them more susceptible to injury, then the person who causes the injury may face a higher award of economic damages. The elderly are commonly used as examples of eggshell plaintiffs because small accidents can cause big injuries.
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