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How is Quality of Life Used in Personal Injury Law?

Quality of life is one element that personal injury lawyers can use to help them determine losses a victim has experienced from an injury. If an injured person has experienced diminished enjoyment or well-being as a direct result of their injuries, they may be able to seek compensation.
However, quality of life claims may be more difficult to quantify than economic damages, and in order to seek compensation, the injury victim must first prove that their life has changed due to their injury.

When is Quality of Life Used in the Legal Process?

Quality of life is used throughout the legal process, but it is first established as you calculate your losses. You may see quality of life mentioned in the demand letter, or it may be spoken about during negotiations. In some cases, the severity of a diminished quality of life can change the outcome of your claim.

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Is Quality of Life used in Kentucky Personal Injury Law?

Yes! When considering non-economic damages such as emotional distress and pain and suffering, Kentucky personal injury cases do consider diminished quality of life.

Is Quality of Life used in Tennessee Personal Injury Law?

Within Tennessee state personal injury laws, claimants can use changes in their quality of life to help calculate non-economic damages.

How Does Hughes & Coleman Injury Lawyers Use Quality of Life?

As you meet with Hughes & Coleman injury attorneys, they will discuss the changes you’ve experienced since your injury. When you work together to calculate your damages from the injury, our experienced personal injury attorneys will work to find the best way to describe how your quality of life has changed as a direct result of your injury and how much recovery you can seek based on the changes in your quality of life.

Additionally, Hughes & Coleman can bring your diminished quality of life into negotiations that may help your case settle instead of going to trial.

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Mr. Coleman is now the Managing Partner and majority owner of Hughes and Coleman Injury Lawyers, a firm he co-founded in 1985 with J. Marshall Hughes. The firm has grown for over 40 years, and we currently have over 30 attorneys and multiple offices across Kentucky and Tennessee, as well as an affiliate firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mr. Coleman’s efforts and accomplishments have been widely recognized, including being named as a Kentucky Super Lawyer in Personal Injury since 2012, and being awarded an AV Rating, the highest rating given, by the nation’s preeminent Attorney Rating service, Martindale- Hubbell®.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Quality of Life

What's the difference between quality of life and standard of living?

A person’s quality of life is there overall physical, mental, and spiritual well-being while a standard of living refers more toward a person’s physical possessions and income.

How can a victim establish or prove quality of life?

To show that quality of life was affected after an injury a victim can show images of activities they did before the injury and journal about how those activities were affected or changed after the injury. For example, if you have video or images of you hiking with friends or pets, and you are no longer able to do that, you can write about how your hobbies were affected. Additionally, medical records and statements from primary care physicians are a great way to show how you are no longer able to do things you love after an injury. You can also get statements from mental health professionals you have spoken to after the injury to help you establish that you are no longer able to accomplish day-to-day tasks.

Creating a “Day in the Life” video to show what you did before and how you are unable to do it now can help support your claim.