When filing a doctor sexual abuse lawsuit, you can seek compensation for your economic and non-economic losses. Our compassionate attorneys can walk you through the process of identifying your losses, assigning value to them, and integrating those losses into a comprehensive personal injury claim.
Our Columbus doctor sexual abuse lawyers bring over 100 years of combined legal experience to your pursuit of justice. We understand that you’re recovering from a traumatic experience, and we fight to honor your recovery while holding abusive medical professionals accountable for your losses.
You can book a free case consultation today to learn more about the compensation you can seek in a doctor sexual abuse lawsuit.
Asking for the Right Types of Compensation After Doctor Sexual Abuse
When you move to file a lawsuit against a sexually abusive medical professional, you must know what types of compensation you have the right to include when demanding a settlement. Most civil courts will award you damages or a settlement based on the economic losses you sustained due to your abuse.
However, you can also include a request for compensation based on your non-economic losses or losses that don’t generate a traditional paper trail. These losses may address your reduced quality of life, emotional distress, pain and suffering, and stress or trauma.
You may also have the right to punitive damages. However, most survivors of doctor sexual abuse will only receive punitive damages under specific conditions. If you opt to negotiate for a fair settlement, you may inadvertently waive your right to punitive support.
Economic Damages
If you want to hold a medical professional responsible for the cost of your post-abuse expenses, you must keep clear records that tie those expenses to an instance or instances of abuse. Fortunately, our Columbus sexual abuse lawyers are here to help you get the job done.
We can support you while organizing your paperwork, ensuring you have the documentation to elaborate on the cost of your:
- Emergency medical care, specifically instances where you needed essential injury treatment
- Physical therapy
- Pregnancy treatment and care, if necessary
- In-home caregiving
- Lost wages or reduced income
- Property damage, as applicable
If you needed to invest in help to get away from an abuser, you may also have the right to include the cost of that assistance in your request for support.
Punitive Damages and Your Doctor Sexual Abuse Case
There are a few different ways to ask for compensation in a doctor sexual abuse lawsuit. While you can go to trial, you can also negotiate for support. However, our team does not want to put you in contact with your abuser, especially if you feel like you’re still in danger. While the option to negotiate is available to you, we’re more than prepared to litigate.
Litigation has several benefits in medical sexual abuse cases. You can both preserve some of the distance between you and an abuser and retain your right to punitive damages. Civil justices use punitive damages to punish abusers and other parties for their mistreatment of survivors like you.
You cannot include a request for punitive damages in your initial claim, nor can you ask for them once your case starts. Only a judge can decide to award you punitive damages. Our Columbus personal injury lawyers can discuss what role punitive damages may play in your recovery as your doctor sexual abuse case evolves.
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Proving Your Right to Medical Sexual Assault Compensation
You need proof to argue for your right to medical sexual assault compensation. The evidence you can use to tie certain losses to your mistreatment will vary based on the specific circumstances that led to your abuse. For example, you can bring forward medical invoices for unnecessary treatments alongside:
- Inappropriate emails from liable parties
- Inappropriate texts from liable parties
- Photographs, either from liable parties or depicting the results of your abuse
- Diaries going into detail about your mistreatment
- Statements from witnesses or third parties
You can work with our attorneys to determine what types of evidence may have the greatest impact on your case. Notably, our team will not expose you to traumatizing experiences to gather evidence key to your recovery. We can work with professional investigators to capture key evidence while preserving your safety and security.
Every Kind of Sexual Assault Entitles You to Legal Action
Our attorneys want to help victims of all types of sexual violence take legal action against the doctors who violated their trust. This means that we’re ready to help if you’re struggling to recover from:
- Verbal abuse: Including sexually suggestive statements, inappropriate jokes, and inappropriate verbal contact with a medical professional
- Physical sexual abuse: Including groping, rape, and/or sexual violence
- Visual sexual harassment: Including abuse in the form of inappropriate pictures, intimidation, demanding inappropriate pictures, sexually suggestive videos, and flashing
If you’re not sure whether or not the treatment you’ve experienced constitutes abuse, consider scheduling a free case consultation with our doctor sexual abuse lawyers in Columbus. We can break down your circumstances and highlight what right you have to seek compensation in a doctor sexual abuse lawsuit.
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Get the Justice You Need to Recover From Medical Sexual Assault
When you go to the doctor, you expect to be treated with compassion and care. No medical professional should ever violate your trust or your body, but there’s recourse available to you if they do. You can work with our doctor sexual abuse lawyers in Columbus to file a lawsuit against medical professionals and the institutions that allow them to abuse their patients.
Our team can gather the evidence necessary to make your case without exposing you or your loved ones to more trauma. We can represent you in conversations with the defendant’s attorneys and ensure you have the space you need to feel safe and comfortable. At the same time, we can advocate for your right to compensation based on your losses.
If you have questions about what compensation you can seek in a doctor sexual abuse case, turn to Cooper Elliott for legal support. We don’t let medical professionals get away with abuse—we’ll stand up for you.
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