Louisville Personal Injury Attorneys

According to the Kentucky Revised Statutes section 413.140(1)(a) the statute of limitations in Kentucky is one year. This means you have one year from the date of your injury to file a claim or you may lose your right to compensation. Kentucky does allow some exceptions to this one-year rule. If an injury victim is a minor at the time of injury, they have one year from the date of their injury to file a claim. Likewise, if an individual is found legally mentally incapacitated at the time of the injury, they have one year from the date of mental recovery to file a claim. Last, if the defendant is absent from the state of Kentucky before a claim can be filed, the time they spend out of state will most likely not be counted as part of the one-year time limit. There are, however, specific rules when it comes to medical malpractice cases. Check out our medical malpractice case to learn more.

There are three main types of damages available in a personal injury case, each one aims to compensate for the injury victim in different ways. The first two falls under the umbrella of “compensatory damages” which means the main purpose of these two damages is to compensate the injury victim for a specific loss and includes economic and non-economic damages. Economic damages compensate for financial losses associated with suffering an injury such as medical expenses and missed days at work. Non-economic damages, as the name suggests, compensates for more abstract losses such as pain and suffering and emotional distress. The last type of damages, punitive damages, differ from compensatory damages in that their main purpose is to punish the negligent party for their careless actions. As such punitive damages are not rewarded very often.