How Is Pain & Suffering Calculated in Personal Injury Cases?

If someone else injures you through their negligence or misconduct, you may have legal grounds to demand compensation for your tangible expenses, such as your medical bills and lost wages. But you can also file a claim to cover your non-tangible losses, like your pain and suffering. Unlike losses with clear dollar amounts, you will need to perform some complex calculations to figure out the amount you deserve for your pain and suffering. Let our personal injury attorneys at The Cassidy Law Firm LLC walk you through the process.

How Do You Define Pain and Suffering in Legal Terms?

In personal injury law, “pain and suffering” refers to the physical discomfort and emotional distress you experience due to an injury, which can include both the immediate pain from the injury itself and any ongoing distress that results afterward, such as emotional turmoil, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, anxiety and depression, sleep disturbances, and PTSD symptoms.
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The Legal Process of Claiming Compensation for Wrongful Death

The unexpected loss of a loved one can devastate anyone, but when their death results from someone else's negligence or wrongful act, you deserve justice. No amount of money can make up for the loss of their life, but a wrongful death claim can provide financial stability and a sense of closure for you and your family. 

What Qualifies as a Wrongful Death Case?

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What Types of Damages Can I Recover in a Personal Injury Lawsuit?

If you’ve recently suffered an injury in an accident, questions are likely racing through your mind. Medical bills pile up fast, time away from work hurts your income, and emotional stress starts to take a toll. It’s a lot happening at once. How are you ever going to recover from this?

Most people don’t know what they’re entitled to – or how to put words to everything they’ve lost. At The Cassidy Law Firm LLC, our personal injury lawyers talk to people in Shrewsbury every day who feel overwhelmed and are taking a significant financial hit.
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Understanding Your Rights After a Dog Bite Incident in NJ

Dog bites can leave victims with severe injuries, including broken bones, lacerations, and infections. If someone else’s dog bit and injured you in New Jersey, it’s crucial that you understand your rights when it comes to seeking compensation for your injuries and the laws that could impact that compensation.

Strict Liability in NJ Dog Bite Cases

While some states use a “one-bite” rule for dog bite injury cases, New Jersey is not one of them. States with one-bite rules prevent dog owners from being liable for injuries caused by the first time their dog bites someone. The idea behind them is that dog owners should only be liable for injuries caused by their dogs if they knew or should have known that their dog was dangerous.
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A credit score is a numerical rating that represents your creditworthiness based on your credit history, debt levels, and payment behavior. Bankruptcy is a legal process that allows you to eliminate or restructure debts if you cannot repay them. Bankruptcy lowers your credit score because it signals that you were unable to repay debts. 

Credit scoring models consider bankruptcy one of the most negative marks that can appear on a credit report. Lenders see bankruptcy as a significant risk factor, which means it will likely be harder to get approved for new credit if you file for bankruptcy.
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It’s natural to reach out to friends and family after a severe injury. You want to let them know what happened and that you’re OK. However, it’s also crucial to watch what you say to friends and family after an accident, particularly on social media. Insurance companies can easily find your posts and use them against you, even if it seems like there’s nothing they could gain. Here are a few days social media can negatively affect a personal injury case in Shrewsbury, NJ.
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If you are injured in an accident, you are going to want to get compensation for your injuries. This may be physical, requiring you to pay hospital and doctor’s bills, as well as the costs of rehabilitation. You may also have pain and suffering from your injuries, and psychological harm that requires you to seek the care of a therapist. 

Damages can include your lost wages from the time you missed work. It may even include compensation for damage to your loss of consortium with your spouse and your inability to perform certain tasks on a temporary or permanent basis.
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When we think about surgery, we often picture a clean and safe space filled with doctors and nurses who are skillfully working together. It’s a place built on trust, where everyone is focused on caring for their patients with attention to detail. And most times, that’s exactly what happens. But sometimes, mistakes are made, and when they happen, patients deserve to know their rights.

What Are Surgical Errors?

Surgical errors are some of the scariest mistakes in healthcare, with real risks of serious injury or worse.
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Winter weather during the New Jersey holiday season significantly increases drivers’ chances of being involved in a severe car accident. The last thing you want is to spend your holidays in the hospital after a crash, so follow these tips for avoiding car accidents while driving in winter weather:

Prepare Your Vehicle

Before heading out, make sure your vehicle is in good condition for winter driving. Check the pressure and tread depth on your tires, as colder temperatures can cause tires to lose air, and worn treads reduce traction on icy roads. Additionally, make sure your windshield wipers work and that your wiper fluid reservoir is full with a winter-resistant formula. Finally, check the charge in your battery since cold weather can strain it, increasing the chance of catastrophic failure.

Getting involved in an accident can be a stressful and painful experience. In an

Each year in New Jerseys, dozens of pedestrians are injured in accidents, most involving automobiles. In some cases, pedestrians have lost their lives as a result of being hit by a car.
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