Was in a car accident. How much can I reasonably expect for pain and suffering?

buncha idiots wrote:

To all you "experts" questioning the OP's story about $7k worth of damage at 50mph:

How do you know what kind of cars were involved? Were you there?

If the OP was in an larger SUV or truck and was hit by a small car this could easily create this scenario. Still a fair amount of momentum and force brought to his stationary object/body inside, but the car/hood would end up sliding underneath the rear of the vehicle. I've had this happen in accidents before and there is little to no damage to the front vehicle at slower speeds.d

He's a shill you idiot. Man you're dumb. Please tell me you don't have kids?

My car is a 2017 Hyundai Elantra. I was hit my a Toyota SUV. Very minimal damage to her vehicle. Crushed the rear bumper and trunk on mine.

The gal who hit me was 68 years old and said that it was the first time that she’d ever been in an accident. It’s been over a month and I still don’t have my car back. Still driving a rental.

Why the chiropractor in the first place? That seems like a major, major error.

If you're not at fault in a car accident and you're hurt, why not go to an ER and document everything (since they're paying for it?)

The pain didn’t really manifest itself until a few hours after the wreck. Blame adrenaline, I guess.

I had actually been rear ended in a different accident (at a much lower speed) in July 2016, so I just went to the same chiropractor who had fixed me up before.

Leave it to Beaverton wrote:

My car is a 2017 Hyundai Elantra. I was hit my a Toyota SUV. Very minimal damage to her vehicle. Crushed the rear bumper and trunk on mine.

The gal who hit me was 68 years old and said that it was the first time that she’d ever been in an accident. It’s been over a month and I still don’t have my car back. Still driving a rental.

Make sure you check with your insurance because a lot of policies have a limit on how much they will pay towards your rental car. Usually it's something like $900, and it sounds like you might be approaching that.

As others have mentioned, pain and suffering will generally be a multiple of your economic damages, but the policy coverage limits will be a major factor.

Here is a pretty informative overview of how to calculate pain & suffering in an injury case.

https://www.sallymorinlaw.com/personal-injury/how-to-calculate-pain-and-suffering-in-a-personal-injury-case/

Karl Hungus wrote:

Why the chiropractor in the first place? That seems like a major, major error.

If you're not at fault in a car accident and you're hurt, why not go to an ER and document everything (since they're paying for it?)

When it's a soft tissue injury, its just about impossible to prove either way.

Your own company should be paying your medical Bill's but the other insurance company covers your pain and suffering (BI). Once you've finished treating ask for 3 times your medical Bill's. Attorneys will generally get you a higher settlement but you have to give them 1/3 of it.

I am not a lawyer, but I am familiar with this field. If you want to be paid for your pain and suffering you will need to hire an attorney and sue the other driver. My advice is to hire a professional who knows his/her work and has experience. I, also, had a car accident, it wasn't very bad, but anyway I had some bad injuries. In the first place, I hired an attorney from https://www.fasigbrooks.com/jacksonville/motorcycle-accidents/ who won the case easily and all my medical bill's were paid. If you want to know more about this, click for more details on the site.

Ohh, why don't you begin anew thread?

duremars wrote:

I am not a lawyer, but I am familiar with this field. If you want to be paid for your pain and suffering you will need to hire an attorney and sue the other driver. My advice is to hire a professional who knows his/her work and has experience. I, also, had a car accident, it wasn't very bad, but anyway I had some bad injuries. In the first place, I hired an attorney from

https://www.fasigbrooks.com/jacksonville/motorcycle-accidents/

who won the case easily and all my medical bill's were paid. If you want to know more about this, click for more details on the site.

Can you give more information about prices?

Get a lawyer, give him the 33% and let him worry about it...Lawyer will find out what their coverage limits before to decide if its worth it, you can't get blood from a beet. Their insurance company is required to give you this info. Then go to a Dr get some scans. Head, back, knee, etc.. You may have some injuries to your back, hips or knees that are not showing up yet. Have a dr prescribe PT, not chiro to treat your injuries. You may need a neck brace or knee brace for the pain. The total of these dr/pt/brace costs will be multiplied by 3. The lawyer will take 1/3, the dr will get his cut and you will get the rest. Was in an accident from behind. 2 months later my wife's knee and hip started hurting, went to Dr for scans - she needed knee replacement and hip surgery. At the time of the accident she did not feel any pain, get it all checked out.