If someone’s negligence in Florida caused your injury, you may be able to recover damages for mental or emotional pain and suffering only if it is connected to a physical injury.

Mental anguish is also known as emotional distress, or emotional trauma.  Think of emotional distress as anxiety and depression.

Here, you’ll hear my experience settling personal injury claims with Philadelphia Insurance Company.    Personal injury claims include any case where someone’s carelessness caused a victim’s injury. 

This includes slip and falls, trip and falls, and car accident cases involving a rental car.  It also includes many other types of accidents. 

In recent years, how is Philadelphia Insurance Company at paying personal injury claims?

In a moment, you’ll see exactly how I got a $250,000 settlement for a resort guest’s slip and fall in a bathtub. She broke her arm.

The strategy that I used to settle this case can be used in all types of personal injury claims. It is not limited to hotel bathtub slip and fall cases. Thus, you can use these techniques for all types of slip and fall (and other) claims against a hotel or any company.

In this article, I take you step by step as to how I negotiated this $250,000 settlement. And you’ll get actionable tips to avoid killing a similar case.

Sometimes people who are hurt while working in Florida may have a personal injury claim even though they may be able to make a workers compensation claim.

If someone’s carelessness caused your elbow injury, you may be entitled to compensation.  

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If someone’s negligence causes you to fracture your patella (kneecap), you may have a case.  Here, we’ll look at some personal injury settlements and verdicts for patella fractures. [Read more…]

Here, you’ll hear how I got a settlement of $170,000 for a broken arm.

If you file for bankruptcy, it may have a big effect on your case.  It will depend upon on whether you file a Chapter 7 or a Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. [Read more…]

Settlements for personal physical injuries are not taxable.  Section 104(a)(2), Internal Revenue Code.  This means that a settlement for pain and suffering, most medical bills, and lost wages isn’t taxable.

This assumes that you did not take an itemized deduction for medical expenses related to the injury in prior years. (IRS Publication 4345).

Pain and suffering is typically paid in car accident claims, slip and falls and much more.