Category Jury

A functional capacity evaluation measures your physical abilities after injury to determine work capacity and damages.

Permanent impairment is proven through medical evidence, standardized evaluation guidelines, and expert testimony connecting your injury to lasting functional loss.

Proving depression damages requires medical diagnosis, treatment records, and expert testimony establishing the injury caused your psychiatric condition—not mere sadness or life stress.

The injuries that surface weeks after an accident can cost more than the ones diagnosed at the scene, and they hinge entirely on documentation.

Under the thin skull rule, defendants pay for injuries aggravated by a plaintiff's pre-existing vulnerability, not just injuries a healthy person would have sustained.

Proving an accident worsened your existing injury requires clear medical evidence of your baseline condition and documented deterioration.

Having a prior health problem doesn't eliminate your right to sue—defendants must still pay for the injuries they make worse.