Did not want to be responsible for it due to his negligence behavior in misusing the swim board as an underwater skating board. When he lost his balance, I was right next to him and the swim board shoot up and hit straight to my eye. Luckily I have my gurgle on or else it would pop my eye's ball. Due to that, I have a lot of trauma in the eye as well as nerves trauma all over inside of my head. Since the eye area has alot of nerves that trigger all over causing me constant headache, sharp pain, unable to open my eye widely, chilly sensation to the brain/head that I had to lay down on bed, unable to preform work or school. At one point, the doctor said that the bruise inside of my eye get worsen and if i don't get a CT-Scan and immediate medical attention, it can lead to blindness. Fortunately, CT-Scan showed no fragile, but my eye needs a while to be recovered because of the sensitivity of the nerves that take longer to heal. As of now, it has been 4 months since the incident and I still have a lot of problem. I've tried to solve the problem with the jerk, but instead, he made a thread statement that I should not bother him because he has anger management and he use to go to juvenile jail. I have consulted an attorney about this, but they said that they were unable to accept the case and advised me to file a small claim court instead. As a small claim court, I'd have to indicate the amount that I want to settle with. My concern is that I don't want to give an unreasonable amount and I don't want to write down an amount that would not be enough to cover for my future medical. I'd rather trade anything to have my eye full capacity back, but unfortunately, I can't now. Please provide me any/expert advice about my case and what I should do. Your time and effort are greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
danrathersdrunkagain
Let your lawyer decide. He'll need to be paid, too.
Breeze
You can recover actual damages, plus an appropriate amount for "pain, suffering and emotional stress".
Actual damages would be all medical bills, CAT scans, etc. Anything that cost money. Actual damages would also be any documented time missed from your job due to the injury, follow-up care, etc.
PSED is a trickier matter. There is no set amount you can recover. A good rule of thumb is to multiply the actual damages by somewhere between 2 and 10. 10 if you were in a coma and lost 2 fingers. 2 for some headaches and inconvenience.
What you really need to do is to seek the advice of a personal injury attorney. Most will give you a free initial consultation, then if they take your case their fee will be based on a percentage of what they recover for you (usually 1/3). If they are unable to recover anything, there is no fee.
Jessica R
first off was this an accident cause its not right to suit someone if it was and cause he made you mad nor should you. but if you do than suit for medical bills and suffering depending on small claims court and state its that it happened in i think the max is 5,000 for pain and suffering so add that and the bills. but even in small court claim you will still have to prove that this was no accident.
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