The Impact of a Personal Injury on Mental Health - Carabin Shaw Laredo TX Attorneys

The personal injuries a victim receives in an accident in Laredo, TX are not always visible. Broken bones and physical injuries contribute to invisible damages such as stress, emotional anguish, and suffering. Healing is a process, and it involves mental health. Calling a lawyer to help you receive compensation after a personal injury ensures that you receive compensation for all your injuries, even the injuries that no one can see.

The Laredo TX personal injury attorneys at Carabin Shaw have decades of experience offering compassionate legal services to their clients. Our team includes multiple professionals who dedicate their lives to helping victims receive compensation for their injuries. We encourage all victims of personal injury to read our client reviews, and find out how a personal injury lawsuit can help your financial recovery, so you can lift the burden of costs associated with injury.

Personal injuries in Texas include harm to a person’s body, mind, and image. They can be economic and noneconomic. Some of them come with a paper trail of expenses that are easy for an attorney to prove in a court of law. Other injuries, such as emotional losses, are ambiguous, and the injured party themself may not be able to explain them in terms of monetary values.

A personal injury can occur for many reasons, including auto accidents, assault crimes, defective products, and emotional abuse. Courts award compensation for the following damages:

• Medical bills
• Lost income
• Pain and suffering
• Mental anguish
• Disability
• Travel costs
• Other costs related to the injury

A good lawyer and legal team will help you to understand all your injuries, so you can seek compensation that covers the entirety of your losses.

One of the most challenging aspects of personal injury is the mental health component because it isn’t clearly-defined, and its cost is ambiguous. What is a fair price for sadness or mental anguish? How can one accurately put a dollar sign on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? These rhetorical questions are tough, and courts attempt to answer them fairly in each personal injury lawsuit.

Personal injury victims in Laredo ,Texas go through the stress of healing, and many factors compound that stress. Missed work, conflicts in relationships, financial hardship, and property damage are only a few things that can add to mental health challenges after an accident. The legal process is an additional stressor.

Victims of personal injury deserve compensation for the mental health aspect of their damages, and experienced legal professionals have methods for quantifying this. Personal injury PTSD treatment comes with medical bills for medication and therapy, but this treatment does not encompass the entire cost of the injury to the victim. To argue the noneconomic costs to the court, lawyers use precedent, percentages, and details to maximize your benefits.

In a personal injury lawsuit, the courts may quantify the mental health impact of an injury by using a percentage of the monetary losses. They may also use previous cases to produce a number that is comparable to similar events. Every detail your lawyer provides to the judge or jury can help to increase the compensation the court awards.

At Carabin Shaw, we believe in maximizing personal injury compensation. Personal injuries include much more than we can see and much more than the number on a medical bill.

Call our toll-free number at 800-862-1260 to schedule an appointment for a free consultation. We have English- AND Spanish-speaking staff available 24/7 to answer your call. In addition, we offer our services on a contingency-fee basis, so you don’t have to worry about upfront legal fees. Call our office if you’re looking for compassionate legal services that don't add to the stress of your personal injury.

For more information:

• Cornell Law
• Statutes Capitol Texas
• State BAR of Texas