The health of drivers in Alberta province has been ensured by one particular traffic rule. That rule states that whether or not you might be found at-fault for a given accident, the driver’s insurance company should still provide you with no fault accident benefits. Hence you would be eligible for up to $50,000, all of which should be recoverable, under the driver’s policy.
Proviso attached to that payment of up to $50,000
That proviso states that the injured victim must provide proof of the need for any specific treatment. Still, any driver might be able to request more than compensation for medical expenses. The same driver might be eligible for disability benefits. The disability benefits amount to $400 per week or 80% of the victim’s weekly earnings. After calculating that latter figure, the insurance company then uses whichever payment scheme allows them to deliver a smaller amount of money.
Neither the medical expenses nor the disability benefits will get paid, if an accident victim delays submission of an accident report. The insurer must receive that report no more than 30 days after the accident.
Losses that may extend beyond the ones covered by the no-fault policy
• Loss covered by payment of rehabilitation expenses, in addition to medical expenses (That could pay for either physical or occupational therapy.)
• Compensation for lost income
• Housekeeping costs and attendance care expenses (This might also cover the cost of a driver.)
• Additional costs, such as those that relate to pain and suffering
What makes a given compensation fair?
In legal terms, it entails the making of enough payments to put the victim back to the point at which he or she was, prior to a given accident. Frequently, a victim needs to hire a lawyer, in order to collect a fair compensation. That member of the legal profession can offer evidence for any claim that the injured victim requires help with housekeeping, or demands the presence of an expert at attendant care.
The challenge to determining when a victim will be fairly compensated
That calls for the ability to look into the future. For younger victims, it becomes more difficult to look into a future, one that could call for following any of an entire range of pathways. Who can say that any one of those same pathways would be the route that the compensated victim would be most apt to take? That is the question that needs to be answered. While an injury lawyer in St. Albert might not have the answer, he or she should know how to seek out some person that feels ready to offer an answer.