{"id":126,"date":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/calculating-compensation-in-personal-injury-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:09:00","slug":"calculating-compensation-in-personal-injury-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/calculating-compensation-in-personal-injury-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"What Compensation is Available in a Wrongful Death Case?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/wrongful-death\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wrongful Death<\/a> | November 1, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Quite a bit of work goes into calculating the proper damage award to seek after a <a href=\"\/chicago-personal-injury-attorney\/\">serious personal injury<\/a> or wrongful death. Some items, like hospital bills, can be determined with great accuracy. Others, like pain and suffering, can be difficult to pin down. Still other issues are straightforward in some cases and difficult in others. For instance, how do you calculate the lost income of a <a href=\"\/personal-injuries\/wrongful-death\/the-wrongful-death-of-a-child-or-an-elderly-person\/\">child killed in a car accident<\/a>? For more information about your particular wrongful death case, it is advisable to see advice from a <a href=\"\/chicago-wrongful-death-attorney\/\">Chicago wrongful death lawyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lifetime earnings vary widely from one individual to the next. Even after a person has completed his or her education, calculating the total income of years or decades is tenuous. When analyzing the future income of a child, the outcome is as much guesswork as science. Over the years, many jurisdictions have adopted an approach puts some victims at an unfair disadvantage. The use of tables that account for race and gender to predict future earnings has begun to draw heavy criticism. These critics question the propriety of placing a different, lower value on the lives of women and people of color.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/calculating-compensation-in-personal-injury-cases\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading What Compensation is Available in a Wrongful Death Case?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrongful Death | November 1, 2016 Quite a bit of work goes into calculating the proper damage award to seek after a serious personal injury or wrongful death. Some items, like hospital bills, can be determined with great accuracy. Others, like pain and suffering, can be difficult to pin down. 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