Recovering Lost Wages After a Rideshare Accident

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We had a client who was involved in a terrible accident in Tampa involving an Uber vehicle. This particular lady was a passenger in the Uber vehicle, and she sustained lost wages. There are two elements to lost wages in these types of cases. One of them is the past lost wages. Sometimes, that’s simple mathematics. You basically take the amount of days you missed, multiply it by your hourly rate, and you get your past, lost wages. What’s more complex is the evaluation of the loss of future wage-earning capacity. Sometimes our firm has to hire an expert to evaluate those claims. What does that entail? Depending on your injuries, if you are not able to perform the essential functions of your job, you may have a claim for loss of future wage-earning capacity.