Trial judgment awarding damages for a hit-and-run MVA. The Court found the accident caused ongoing back and hip pain, aggravated headaches, and vocational disability.
Liability was admitted in this motor vehicle injury trial. The court assessed damages for soft tissue injuries, chronic pain, depression, income loss, and care costs.
The court found the plaintiff’s two motor vehicle accidents caused indivisible neck, back and left shoulder injuries, while her knee condition was largely divisible.
Motor vehicle accident damages trial awarding compensation for chronic low-back injury, past income loss, future earning capacity, future care, and special damages.
Motor vehicle personal injury trial. The court found chronic neck, upper back and headache injuries plus psychological harm, with partial mitigation issues, and awarded $982,020.69.
Trial judgment awarding damages for chronic pain, loss of earning capacity, future care, pension loss and special damages after a motor vehicle accident.
With liability admitted, the court accepted medical and allied expert evidence that the plaintiff suffers chronic thoracic soft tissue pain maintained by central nervous system sensitization with limited prognosis; on that factual finding the court applied established principles for non-pecuniary awards, loss of earning capacity (earnings approach), and future care (medically necessary and reasonable standard) and awarded damages totaling $721,053.63 apportioned as non-pecuniary $125,000, past loss $120,000, future loss $340,000, future care $125,000, and special damages $11,053.63.
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Non-pecuniary damages
Loss of earning capacity (past and future)
Cost of future care
Special damages
Pre-judgment interest
Medical causation (central nervous system sensitization)