While no amount of money can make up for the loss of a body part, you can seek compensation for certain types of damages in amputation and dismemberment cases. You can seek damages for the following:
- Medical expenses (past and future)
- Rehabilitation
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Medications
- Lost wages
- Loss of earning capacity
- Loss of household services
- Assistive devices and transportation
- Prosthetic limbs
- Physical pain and suffering – including “Phantom” pain
- Mental anguish
- Emotional distress
- Scarring and disfigurement
- Inability to perform certain functions
- Loss of enjoyment of life
