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What Can be Claimed for Car Accident Injury Compensation?

If you have been involved in a car accident and are thinking about working with a personal injury lawyer, you might be wondering what types of compensation you may be able to receive. Every case is different, but these are some of the types of car accident injury compensation that your attorney can help you seek.

Medical Bills

One of the biggest things that you might be worried about in regards to your accident are your medical bills. As you might have already found out, the medical expenses that can go along with a car accident can be incredibly high, even for relatively minor injuries. If you sustained more serious injuries in your accident, your medical bills could be astronomical. If you work with an attorney, you can fight to have your medical bills covered, including the ambulance ride to the hospital, your hospital bills and bills from your doctors, physical therapists and other health care professionals who might have provided you with services in regards to your injuries.

Other Medical Expenses

Not only do you have to worry about medical bills, but you might be facing other types of medical expenses related to your accident as well. For example, you may have had to pay for pain medication, crutches or a wheelchair and more. This is another type of car accident injury compensation that your lawyer can assist you with.

Lost Wages

Depending on the severity of your injury, the car accident that you were involved in might have left you unable to work. If this is the case, you could be finding yourself struggling financially because of it. Your lawyer can help determine how much money you have lost in wages that you would have been paid if you had been able to work due to not being injured and can then fight to help you be compensated for these lost wages.

Future Lost Wages

Additionally, you should think about the money that you might miss out on in the future because of your injury. If your injuries are relatively minor and if you are expected to make a full recovery, this might not be something that you will have to worry about. If you have been permanently disabled in some type of way, however, your future earning potential could have been seriously affected by your accident. For example, you might never be able to work again, or you might not be able to return to the same line of work. There are ways that attorneys calculate future lost wages so that they can fight for their clients.

As you can probably see, there are various types of compensation that you can fight for if you have been injured in a car accident. It can be tough to fight for these things on your own, however, so it’s a good idea to work with a reputable, experienced personal injury lawyer who can help you through every step of this process.

If you’re thinking of coming camping in Braunton next Summer then check out Fairlinch Camping in Braunton. Cheap, straightforward (run by a local farmer) and very handy for the surfing beaches of Saunton and Croyde.

AboutBraunton has a picture of the River Caen this morning slightly flooding one bank but thankfully still being contained by the flood garden.

Welcome to the Braunton Village Website which was set up as a wonderful community resource by Barrie Kissak back in 1999. With Barrie’s kind permission, this site is going to be merged with www.AboutBraunton.com to form what we hope will be Braunton’s main community information website and resource. For the moment, we are continuing to publish Barrie’s content on this site. For more information on Braunton, what it has to offer and what’s on, visit www.AboutBraunton.com.

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BRAUNTON, one of the largest villages in the West of England and reputedly the largest in England, lies in the North West of Devon, overlooking Barnstaple Bay. It is two miles from the sea and through the centre runs the Caen Stream a tributary of the Taw. It took its name from the Goidel saint, Brannock, who came from South Wales as a missionary and converted the native Britons to the christian faith in 550 A D.Brannock was a priest in the household of Brychan, king of Brencknock. He married one of the king’s daughters, but the family troubles were a great incentive for leaving his royal home. At that time the Welsh Britons often raided their Dumnoni neighbours on the opposite side of the Bristol channel.
In all probability Brannock came to North Devon on the occasion of such a raid and is said to have landed on Saunton Sands at the mouth of the river Taw.
The Estuary of the Taw and Torridge was wooded in those days. As also was a portion of Braunton Borrows. Here lived a tribe of Britons and Brannock settled among them, soon establishing a strong christian community. A christian church, the first North Devon was built at a spot near where the Caen stream began to spread its waters on the Alluvial alnds around the river Taw.

The township, that grew up around this church, he named Brannockstood, which later became Brauntona and at the end of the nineteenth century, Braunton. Many of the older villagers would tell you that they lived in Branton just as those of a neighbouring village today say they lived in Ham.