When I am in a motorcycle accident, what items do I get paid for?
- Money to repair your bike
- Fair market value if your bike is totaled (often a fight with the insurance company)
- Money for the type and severity of injuries
- Scars
- Disability e.g. walk with a limp
- Money for not being able to ride anymore because of injuries
- Money for pain and emotional injury e.g. PTSD
- Money for your riding gear
- Money for you future pain
- Lost wages (past and future)
- Recover the cost of medical bills to date
- Recover the cost of future medical expenses
- Recover the cost to hire someone to do indoor/outdoor chores e.g. mow your lawn when you can't
- Depending on the facts, other money may be recoverable