Long Island Injury Attorney
Over 100 Million Dollars Recovered for Accident Victims & Their Families
At The Odierno Law Firm, P.C., our attorneys have over 150 years of combined legal experience helping the wrongfully injured and their loved ones. Whether you need a tough negotiator for your insurance claim or a seasoned trial attorney for your personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit, you have come to the right place.
Our Long Island personal injury attorneys have the proven talent and dedication to help you win the compensation you deserve. We will also charge you nothing upfront or out-of-pocket. With a no recovery, no fee setup, we ensure that you are free of legal and financial stresses so that you can focus on moving forward. Though we cannot erase all consequences of a serious injury or fatal accident, we can help you get the money to cover the economic and non-economic damages you have sustained. We can also help you find peace of mind knowing that the responsible party is held accountable.
How to Calculate Compensation for Pain and Suffering
Pain and suffering is defined as anguish or emotional distress that an injured party experiences after they are involved in an accident. Pain and suffering may refer to physical pain, depression, anxiety, memory loss, physical limitations, and many more.
Proving the expenses of medical bills and repair bills is not difficult to do after you are involved in an accident. It’s much harder, however, to prove the amount of pain and suffering from your accident. The Long Island personal injury attorneys at The Odierno Law Firm, P.C. can help you through this difficult process. To help you get started with calculating this complicated nuance of injury claims, we’ve listed a few methods that are common in calculating pain and suffering after an accident.
There are two basic methods that insurance companies use to calculate pain and suffering- the “per diem” method and the “multiple” method:
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Multiple: The injured party's economic damages are added up and totaled, and then a multiple from one to five is applied.
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Per Diem: The dollar value of an injured party's wages per day is assigned and then multiplied by the number of days that an individual was affected by an injury
Our personal injury attorneys in Long Island will aggressively represent you by standing up to insurance companies so that you don’t have to endure more stress. Call our injury firm in Long Island to discuss your case in detail!