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Florida is a state in which there are generally two kinds of injuries – economic and non-economic:

Economic damages. These are lost wages and medical bills. The second is non- economic damages. Those are awarded for pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of the enjoyment of life, inconvenience and those types of things.
Non-economic damages. In the State of Florida, you are not entitled to non-economic damages unless you have suffered a permanent injury – meaning that you've gone through the healing process, you've gotten as good as you're going to get and you're still not back to where you were. That only applies in motor vehicle cases and is called a permanency requirement. There is no permanency requirement in a slip and fall case or in a motorcycle case. However, when someone is injured in a car accident, they're entitled to their wage loss and medical bills caused by that injury. But, unless there's a permanent injury which is proven by doctors, they're not entitled to non-economic damages.

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