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so the easy to calculate damages are
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called non-economic damages and that
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would be what are the medical bills what
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are the lost wages what are other things
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you can provide receipts for that a jury
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can take out a calculator and simply do
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some basic addition and say Here’s what
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this person should get that’s not to say
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the insurance company isn’t still going
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to try to diminish those damages by
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saying the medical bills were too much
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or the lost wages were inflated but
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that’s the piece that that is just math
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the really important damage that most
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people experience is what is commonly
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called pain and suffering or
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non-economic damages and that includes
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everything from the
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inconvenience anxiety mental distress
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loss of sleep loss of consortion which
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means the the dam to the relationship
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with your partner your spouse your
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children and that is the big part of
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what people usually are struggling with
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and it’s the hardest part of the story
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to tell when we get in front of a jury
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it’s the easiest part for an insurance
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company to try and diminish and and
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there are tools that they have fostered
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like saying oh well if your economic
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damages are 10,000 ,000 and the most you
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should get for your non-economic is also
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10,000 or 5,000
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or500 when in fact that’s that’s the
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human loss that’s the isolation the
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inability perhaps to drive or pick up
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your grandchild or participate in sports
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or Fitness and I have had so many
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clients who come in and say well I
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couldn’t work out I wasn’t part of my
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community then I can’t wait then I you
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know couldn’t see my grandkids and and
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it then leads to depression and War
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distress and the insurance company
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simply wants to discount it as
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unimportant when it’s really the most
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important part of the experience