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From time to time personal injury clients of mine will inquire as to precisely how we arrive at the value of their case. Personal injury cases generally fall into certain categories, specifically automobile accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, slip and fall accidents, products liability, and also medical malpractice cases. Although there are other ways personal injury victims can be hurt the foregoing list covers the most typical situations the personal injury attorney in San Diego sees.

The personal injury victim is entitled to monetary damages as compensation for their injuries. Damages are either compensatory damages, obviously designed to compensate the personal injury victim for their losses(i.e. medical bills, lost wages, travel expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress, etc.) or, punitive damages which are designed to punish the wrongdoer for particularly wanton, despicable, and outrageous conduct.

An experienced personal injury attorney in San Diego should have a wealth of prior experience in evaluating personal injury cases. Also, all personal injury attorneys in San Diego, and nationwide, have access to a data base as well as periodicals, which detail both personal injury case settlements and personal injury court awards in prior similar cases.

An experienced San Diego personal injury attorney will be able to conduct a complete case review with a thorough understanding of local personal injury awards and settlements. While settlements and court awards in similar cases outside of San Diego may form a component of the analysis of your personal injury lawyer, the amount that similar personal injury cases brought here in San Diego are the most telling evidence of the value of your personal injury case.

Most personal injury attorneys in San Diego have had clients who have stories of friends or family that have had minor injuries which allegedly brought huge sums of money! Assuming that the information is accurate, it must be remembered that while there may be many similarities with other cases, each case stands as a unique entity. Small detail differences can dramatically affect the personal injury case value. Experienced personal injury lawyers are experts at determining the value of your particular case. Do not be shy about discussing the value of your personal injury case with your attorney in order to gain a thorough understanding of exactly how your lawyer arrived at his valuation of your case.