What amount could I make a claim for?
The amount you can claim greatly depends upon damages suffered as a result of the accident. When you claim, you are obtaining compensation for damages that you have suffered from an individual who was responsible. This claim should compensate for your damages and put you back into the position (financial and medically) that you were in prior to the accident.
There are several categories which are used to assess how much you can claim and these are based on what damages have been suffered. These damages are usually put into two categories:
- General Damages - These are damages that have caused suffering and a loss of quality of life.
- Special Damages - These related to financial loss and are usually associated with costs that result from an injury. Examples of these losses could be those associated with vehicle damage, treatment for injuries, loss of earnings, cost of travel (if a vehicle has been damaged) to name just a few.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).