Injury Compensation Claim -claim Within 3 Years
Damages can be referred to as an award of money that law enforces to be paid to a person as a compensation for injury or loss. An injury compensation claim can be made, if you suffer an injury in an accident, which occurred due to someone else’s mistake. You can claim for the pain and suffering added with the losses and expenses incurred by you as medical costs. It is necessary prove that the injury or illness was caused due to the other partys negligence. The legal proceedings in injury compensation claims are too be started within the limitation period, which is within three years of the date of the accident. And it is a fact that you can remember the circumstances of the accident only while it is still fresh in the mind. In certain cases the delay in filing the claim is condoned, where the claimant is suffering from mental disability or is a minor. The amount of compensation award depends on the factors like seriousness of the injury and the expenses incurred by you. The compensation is based on the medical evidence. The compensation is being awarded to put you back in a position, as if the accident had never happened.