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You are entitled to compensation if your injuries prevent you from working, thereby causing you to lose income. For example, if you are a landscaper who can't work for a week because you sprained an ankle in an accident, you are entitled to compensation for that week of lost wages. You are also entitled to lost wages if you miss work because of treatment.

In the United States today, there are over thirty-six million people above the age of 65. According to statistics, many will need some form of assisted living, whether it is a nursing home, assisted living facility or other elderly facilities.

The term compensatory damages derives from the word "compensate," meaning "to make up for" or "to make whole." Generally, these damages can be broken up into two sub-categories — actual damages and general damages.

The most significant issue to most people involved in a personal injury claim is the issue of damages. Obtaining fair and just compensation for injuries you have sustained is the primary concern at Schilling & Esposito. By using our experience and the extensive resources available to us on your behalf, we focus on achieving the highest possible monetary recovery for you.

Nursing homes are regulated by the federal government under the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 (OBRA)

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It stands to reason that the most important factor which will affect the amount of damages that you can recover is the nature of the injury sustained. The more serious an injury is, the higher the value of the claim.

There is no simple, universal formula that lets us put a price tag on injury, pain, and suffering. Rather, at Schilling & Esposito we rely on our experience in handling injury cases of all kinds to enable us to form an expectation as to what your case might be worth. This experience is crucial in order to ensure that your case will not be settled out of court for less than it is worth in court.

The most common tort — and the one most difficult to define — is negligence. Negligence is defined as the failure to use reasonable due care to avoid foreseeable harm to a person, place, or thing.

A law establishing the time limit within which a lawsuit must be brought is called a statute of limitations. Different types of cases have different statutes of limitation.