hi lighter
There are 3 categories:
1. General Damages (loss, pain and suffering and the cap is $300.000...in researching that is brain damage, can't tie shoe laces)
2. Special Damages (money I paid out of pocket, like hiring Karla, replacing my wheelchair, meds, lost wages) $25,000.00 plus
3. Future Care (self-explanatory) and I was given 17.05 years left per the chart that is used= 87th year, that was 2 years ago, so 15.05 now. That was the biggie to pay for Karla's therapy to keep me supple and not atrophy and gnarl iinto myself, and go to a pine box in a seated position, like my mother
I was just checking, and when ICBC cut Karla from me, I was still not doing my laundry, not able to reach to the floor, was in far more pain, not driving my car, and the 2 years June/10 to now Sept/12 has put me in far better shape due to Karla. It is my own opinion, and Karla's, that we have been maintaining me, since about the 3rd anniversary of accident, March 27, 2012. She went away for the month of June, and sent a friend who was not trained but was rehearsed. I was weaker upon Karla's return.
Our original was for over $300,000.00, for all three. I suspect if the full truth is to be put forth, that we ought to go to Court.
A lot of mistakes were made in decisions by hospital, and ICBC, and *I* am the one to tell them. ICBC treated this like just a broken leg, surgery and all healed and weight bearing in 5 months. Hospital didn't pass on the news of the tremors so a resident was guessing at diagnoses, like tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, D.T's. and drugging me as such. There is so much more and I'll bet my lawyer never scoured the hospital reports as I did. In reading Karla's session reports, there is much info--- bet he didn't read those either. I must ask him outright
It was just at the first of this year that I was able to take off my left shoe, as I had done before. By Court date it will be over 4 years.
If he had been prepared to talk with me the other day he would have had the Dr's report out and marked as per page ?, Line ? and not ra-ra-ra-ra'd his way while mumbling into the phone what he was by-passing, and I was to keep up with that?
We are dickering mainly over my Future Care--12 weeks or Karla indefinitely.
Insurance Co. is at $110,000.00 but does not have all the info yet regarding th 3 professional reports.
In court, though, I have to be sure my lawyer asks the proper questions to be able to answer about all the crapola that happened.
Iz