Birth Injury Non-Economic Damages

Birth injury legal cases generally involve both economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages are those costs and losses caused by a provable medical malpractice birth injury that span from the onset of the injury to the future. They include specific dollar-amount expenditures, such as medical expenses. But there are also birth injury non-economic damages. So what are “non-economic damages”? They are damages that are harder to put a finger on in terms of monetary value, as they do not have standard prices associated with them. The American College of Surgeons aptly defines them as compensation for subjective, non-monetary losses such as...

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