Can I Get a Pain and Suffering Settlement?
Can I get a pain and suffering settlement? The short answer is yes. Pain and suffering is one of the elements of damages, as lawyers call it, that you’re entitled to recover if you’ve been in a wreck. Other types of damages you can get are your medical bills, your lost wages, and pain and suffering, which is physical. But then there’s also emotional distress, so if you’ve suffered PTSD in a wreck, you can recover for that. Now, a key is you have to prove that you endured pain and suffering, or you have to prove that you had emotional distress. So one of the key things is to explain to your medical providers physically what you’re going through so that they can note it in your records. And then we can show to an insurance adjuster or to a jury later on what you were enduring.