Car Accident Settlements: 4 Financial Impacts For Farmer's Market Workers
Selling products at a farmer's market is a great way to connect with the community, make some money, and showcase local foods. However, if you're involved in a car accident before or after a farmer's market event, then your role in the farmer's market industry may be drastically changed. When someone else is at fault for the car accident, you can hire an attorney to hold the person liable and seek a settlement for damages. Along with compensation for costs directly related to your injury, there are four additional financial impacts associated with your job at a farmer's market. By breaking down these different costs, you can help build a settlement case that is fair to your losses and the true financial impact you're going through.
Lost Income
The severity of car accident injuries can often have a huge impact on your ability to earn money. Even if working at a farmer's market was not your main source of income, you can still seek compensation for lost money earned. The amount that you make at a farmer's market typically varies on your sales and will often be based on past results. When consulting with an attorney, you will often calculate different factors associated with the income from a farmer's market. This includes how often the farmer's market was held and your amount earned at each event.
For example, if you attended one farmer's market each week and averaged $500 each time, then an attorney would seek $2,000 in damages for each month that you were forced to miss due to your injuries. This lost income can have a huge impact on your settlement case and help increase the final amount.
Lost Inventory
When traveling to and from a farmer's market, you are likely transporting a lot of your goods with you. A car accident could cause fruits, vegetables, and other items to fly out of the vehicle and become spoiled as they are wrecked in the crash. All of these items are potential items that could have been sold at the farmer's market. This loss in inventory can result in a huge financial impact and should be a part of your case. When someone else is liable for the car accident, a settlement case often involves compensation for the items that were damaged during the accident. Pictures and personal inventory documents can both be used to showcase how much food and product was actually lost during the car accident. Even if the items were not directly damaged, the car accident may cause them to spoil or have the inability to get sold due to your injuries and the emergency situation.
Assistant Workers
As you continue to heal through your injuries, you may rely on support to keep your farmer's market going and continue to establish your presence at the events. One way to help with this is by hiring assistant workers to carry items, manage your products, and complete sales at the farmer's market. If you were not injured in a car accident, these workers would likely not be needed. An attorney can include their costs as part of your settlement case and attempt to seek compensation for the expenses related to the additional help.
Adaptive Equipment
While preparing to return to your local farmer's market, you may need to purchase special equipment to help you with setting up and moving product around. The injuries that you suffered may impact your ability to lift items, access the back of a truck, or complete simple tasks like opening and filling plastic bags. The purchase of adaptive equipment can make these tasks easier and cause less strain on your current injuries. By using receipts and cost estimates for pieces of equipment, an attorney can seek compensation for the items that you need. This will help you return to the farmer's market with less out of pocket costs on your behalf.
Contact an attorney from a firm like Wolter, Beeman & Lynch to set up an initial meeting and get help with moving forward through a settlement case.