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What Are The Types Of Specific Damages In A Personal Injury Lawsuit?

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What are specific (special) damages in a personal-injury case? The concrete, identifiable numbers, explains Oakland attorney Andrew Dósa—like $2,000 in medical bills, which isn't in dispute as a figure, though the insurer may argue whether all the treatment was injury-related. Lost wages are the next common category: shifts worked times hourly pay gives a precise, objective wage-loss total.

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Answered by Andrew Dósa · Oakland, CA

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0:33

— how special damages are the concrete, identifiable numbers

1:18

— how documented wage loss becomes a specific damage

Frequently Asked Questions

What are specific (special) damages?

The concrete, identifiable numbers—like $2,000 in medical bills, which isn't in dispute as a figure, though the insurer may argue whether all the treatment was injury-related.

How does wage loss count?

Documented wage loss is a specific damage—shifts worked times hourly pay gives a precise, objective total that can be proven exactly.

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