Fanelli Evans Patel Represents Injury Victims, Not Insurance Companies
In any personal injury or accident, the severity of your injuries will determine how much you end up paying in medical bills and the amount of income you lose. Damages are often much more than financial, also impacting your physical and emotional health. At Fanelli, Evans, & Patel, our personal injury attorneys never represent insurance companies; instead, we use our resources solely to advocate for personal injury victims. If you or a loved one has recently suffered a personal injury, our legal team is here to offer you guidance during this stressful time.
Our Legal Team Will Handle all Communications with Insurance
Filing a personal injury claim involves much more than submitting claims forms and receiving a settlement check a few weeks later. You will need to provide information related to your claim, which can range from medical records, photographs/videos of the accident, or witness statements. Even after this evidence is remitted, insurance will likely request further information. Thankfully, our personal injury lawyers will handle these communications on your behalf and negotiate a fair settlement.
Our Legal Team Has Experience Calculating Damages
Whether you were in a car crash, suffered a dog bite, or fell at your local grocery store, your compensation will be centered around your losses (referred to as “damages” in the law). Common personal injury damages include the cost to be seen by an emergency room physician, medical imaging, surgeries, rehab, and lost wages. These economic damages are based on a monetary loss, making them easy to calculate. Given that a financial loss was involved, there is never a cap on economic damages in Pennsylvania.
Conversely, you can sustain non-economic damages or intangible losses that are difficult to quantify but still affect your life. These can include pain and suffering, infliction of emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and disfigurement. Since there is no dollar value tied to non-economic damages, these costs can be more difficult to calculate.
Generally, our personal injury lawyers use the multiplier method to calculate non-economic damages. The method rates your injuries on a severity scale of 1.5 to 5. This figure is then multiplied by your total economic damages to arrive at total non-economic damages.
Our Legal Team Knows How to Recover Maximum Compensation for Injured Parties
While there is typically no cap on economic or non-economic damages (collectively known as compensatory damages), punitive damages are limited in medical malpractice suits. Punitive damages are designed to punish the offender and deter society from similar behavior. If a physician or other medical practitioner exhibits willful or wanton conduct or reckless indifference to your safety, you can recover punitive damages.
However, the Commonwealth limits punitive damages against an individual practitioner to twice the amount of compensatory damages. However, this cap does not apply if the practitioner intentionally caused you harm. Of course, part of our internal investigation involves determining if you are eligible to recover a punitive damages award.
Reach Out to Our Reading Personal Injury Attorneys Today
If you have recently suffered harm due to another’s carelessness, our Reading personal injury attorneys would like to speak with you. Our lawyers are paid on a contingency fee basis, meaning that you will not owe us a dime unless you receive a settlement or award. At Fanelli, Evans, & Patel, our mission is to assist individuals in recovering for their physical, emotional, and financial losses following a personal injury. To schedule a free consultation, our Reading office can be reached online or by calling (484) 869-2113 today.