How much compensation is a survivor of a brain injury entitled to legally? That question requires a deep look into the impacts of that brain injury on that person’s life, you know, all aspects. How has that brain injury affected the survivor’s enjoyment of life, the hobbies and activities that they took pleasure from before the brain injury? How does the brain injury impact that individual’s ability to work, and how much money then would… would be lost by an inability to work? How does the brain injury impact that survivor’s ability to do chores around their house? Are they required, for example, to… to have help around the house? Are there treatment modalities that will help that survivor achieve the best possible quality of life?
At the end of the day, the law permits compensation in all of those types of categories, and they add up. What is the impact on employment long term over the course of that person’s life? If someone, for example, is not able to work again as a result of the brain injury, what would he or she likely have earned until his or her likely retirement age? If someone is required a couple hours a week in housekeeping assistance for things that he or she isn’t able to do around the house, the law permits compensation for that. What is the cost associated with the treatment modalities which are being recommended to give you the best possible quality of life? And ultimately, that is part of the compensation as well, which a wrongdoer or wrongdoer’s insurer has to compensate for.
