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West Palm Beach Florida Car Accident Damages Valuation

There is a lot that goes into valuating a soft tissue/neck/back injury. A West Palm Beach car accident lawyer must take all potential items of damage into account when assessing a case for settlement or trial. He/She must look at the nature of the injury and whether there is objective documentation of the injury such as CAT scan, CT scan, MRI, X-ray, functional tests, etc. Then he/she will look at whether there are lay witnesses or experts who can testify to the client's physical limitations and whether the client has undergone vocational therapy and costs in order to prepare his/her job. A good West Palm Beach car accident attorney will want to look at how the injury has changed the client's personality/outlook on life, habits in drug/alcohol use, status of his/her marriage and relations with family members, and to what level the injury has impacted the client physically, emotionally and economically.