If you have been injured in a car accident in North Carolina, you may have a right to compensation if someone else caused the crash. Part of the compensation you may recover is restitution of wages and related income lost if you can’t return to work because of your injuries.
At Younce, Vtipil, Baznik & Banks, P.A. in Raleigh, N.C., our car accident lawyers can seek lost wages for you if you were unable to return to work immediately, could not return to the same job, had to accept work that pays less, or you could no longer work for a living. Payment would also make up for the value of lost overtime, benefits, bonuses, etc.
We will help you recover all the compensation you are due if someone else has injured you in a car accident. Our dedicated attorneys will provide you with the care and personal attention you deserve as we pursue a car accident claim on your behalf. They include firm partner Joseph Baznik and associate attorney Ross Weatherspoon, who are fluent in Spanish and regularly work with our Spanish-speaking clients.
Contact our office today for a free consultation with a North Carolina car accident lawyer. We charge you nothing unless we recover compensation for you.
How Do I Recover Lost Wages?
North Carolina personal injury law says that if someone is harmed because of another party’s wrongdoing, the injured party (the plaintiff) has the right to “demand” compensation for their losses. A personal injury claim typically seeks compensation for medical bills, pain and suffering, wages, and other income the plaintiff has lost because they were injured and unable to work.
As your attorneys, we would investigate to determine who caused your accident and identify their car insurance coverage. We would then obtain statements from your doctor and employer to establish how long you were out of work and the income you lost because of it.
We then present a “demand letter” to the at-fault driver’s insurer detailing our evidence of their client’s fault and the payment you are due. At that point, the insurer must decide whether to pay the compensation we have demanded, deny the claim and their client’s fault, or offer to negotiate a settlement of the claim.
When we negotiate a settlement, we present you with all offers along with our advice, but whether to accept an offer will always be your choice.
If the insurer denies the claim or fails to offer an acceptable settlement, we can file a lawsuit on your behalf and seek a verdict for the full damages owed to you.
