If you’ve been seriously injured, you’re facing serious medical expenses, and your bills are likely piling up. Medical care is notoriously expensive, and serious injuries often develop into secondary health concerns that have overarching implications. In other words, it’s unlikely that your medical concerns and costs are going to come to a complete halt anytime soon. Medical expenses can range from early costs such as emergency care and transportation through to surgery and hospitalization and on to treatment from doctors and specialists, physical therapy and rehabilitation, prescription medications, adaptive physical devices, and beyond.

Serious injuries translate to lost hours on the job, which in turn translate to lost wages. Watching your costs rise while your pay decreases can be especially disheartening and difficult. Further, if your injuries stop you from returning to your job at full capacity, you could face a decrease in earning potential into the future. An altered career trajectory can be as emotionally crippling as it is financially difficult.

Physical injuries are very physically painful, but they can also be exceptionally painful emotionally. Facing the fact that your life has been altered (possibly irrevocably) as a result of someone else’s negligence can lead to serious emotional hardship. Further, the long journey toward recovery ahead is likely to be arduous and emotionally fraught. Never underestimate the emotional pain and suffering wrought by a personal injury claim.