Oregon Personal Injury Attorneys - Damages

The first type of damage for the victims of an accident are the economic damages are objectively verifiable monetary losses including but not limited to reasonable necessary medical expenses, funeral and memorial expenses, loss of income and past and future loss of earning capacity, reasonable and necessary expenses incurred for substitute domestic services, damage to reputation that is economically verifiable, reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by the lossthe use of the property, and reasonable costs incurred for the repair or the replacement of damaged property, whichever is the smaller.

The second type of damages available to an accident victim, non-economic damages, which the subjective, non-monetary losses, including but not limited to pain, mental suffering, emotional distress, humiliation, injury to reputation, loss of care, comfort, companionship and society, loss of consortium, inconvenience and disruption of the normal and usualActivities apart from gainful employment. Non-economic damages are unlimited, with two exceptions: In most cases, wrongful death, non-economic damages are limited up to $ 500,000. Claims against public entities are statutory limits plus. The legal deadline for non-economic damages does not apply to bodily injury or property damage because it was assumed to be unconstitutional.

The third type of monetary damages available to Oregon Personal InjuryAccident victims, punitive damages are permitted if plaintiff proves by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted: malice, or reckless and outrageous indifference to a highly unreasonable risk of harm and a conscious indifference to the health safety and welfare of others . It is a special procedure for the recovery of punitive damages. The claim can not be claimed in the original complaint. The party that punitive damages must tell you that they will try to give sanctionsDamages and then file a motion supported by evidence. The request may be made at any time after the complaint has been filed. Constitutionally limited punitive damages appear to be about three to four (3 to 4) times the economic damages, missing some very serious circumstance.