Although your child is always the main focus of your concern, you should also consider your own possibility to bring a claim for yourself/yourselves along with that of your child for your own money compensation.
These claims are often termed ” derivative claims” because the legal right to bring them derives from the occurrence of a accident due to the negligence of a third party, causing serious personal injuries to your child.
In my experience, such claims are often well accepted by juries and insurance companies understand that a serious injury to a child affects the entire family unit.
Parents whose child is very seriously injured due to the negligence of third party may be eligible to receive their own sum of money compensation in addition the money compensation for child’s injuries. There are different key words and phrases for these various categories of damages, and this is not a topic that is easy to research on the Internet.
The eligibility of a parent to claim for money compensation may depend upon each individual State’s laws. Some states allow for a parent to be paid for pain and suffering; for loss of income due to leaving employment to care for the injured child; for reimbursement of attendant care and supervision; and to be compensated for other reasons.
