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New Jersey allows those who were injured as a result of the reckless or careless actions of someone else to recover both economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages are out-of-pocket expenses you have paid as a result of your injury.
Economic damages include:
- Medical expenses
- Lost wages
- Loss of future earning capacity
- The cost of household services that you previously performed but no longer can as a result of your injury
- Property damage relating to the hazard
Non-economic damages relate to the impacts that being injured has had on your life, and include such things as:
- Physical pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Loss of the enjoyment of life
- Public humiliation
- Loss of consortium, which is a damage collected on behalf of the injured person’s spouse for the loss of physical intimacy and companionship that often occurs after a serious injury.