In most California injury cases you can seek money for your medical bills, your lost wages, and your pain and suffering. Depending on the facts, that may also include future medical care, lost earning ability, and property damage.
Here is how it breaks down. The economic side covers the costs you can put a dollar figure on: emergency care, surgery, physical therapy, medication, the paychecks you missed while you healed, and care you will still need down the road. The non-economic side covers what the crash took from your daily life, like the pain, the stress, and the things you used to do without a second thought and now can't.
California is a pure comparative-fault state, so if you were partly at fault, that doesn't end your claim. It only reduces what you recover by your share. Insurance adjusters know this and often push the fault story hard to shrink the payout. That is where having Joe Crudo in your corner matters.
The type of case shapes the damages too. A serious car accident claim looks different from a slip-and-fall on someone else's property, and both fall under personal injury law. One quick note on timing: California generally gives you two years to file under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1, and claims against a public entity can have much shorter deadlines.
This is general information, not legal advice, and every case is different.
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