How do lost wages work in a personal injury case?

When people ask this question, they’re usually not asking about math. They’re asking about survival. They’re asking, “How am I supposed to keep my life together if I can’t work? Who’s going to make this right?”

Lost wages aren’t just numbers on a pay stub. They’re the missed shifts, the projects you couldn’t finish, the clients you couldn’t see, the career momentum that slipped through your fingers while you were trying to heal. They’re the fear you carry when you lie awake at night staring at the ceiling wondering how long your savings will last.

Insurance companies treat lost wages like an accounting issue.

I treat them like part of your story.

Here’s how it really works: if the crash took away your ability to work — for a week, a month, a year — the law requires the at-fault party to pay for that loss. Not just the hours you missed, but the opportunities, the promotions, the shift differentials, the commission checks, the professional reputation you’ve spent years building.

And if they refuse?

If they pretend your lost time doesn’t matter?

Then we take it to the place where ordinary people — jurors — understand exactly what missing a paycheck means in a real human life.

My job is to show them the truth of what happened to you. To connect the dots between your injuries and the work you couldn’t do. And when jurors see that truth, they don’t think in spreadsheets. They think in fairness.

So how do lost wages work?

They work the same way every part of your case works:

we tell the truth, clearly and humanly, and we make sure the people who matter understand the full cost of what you’ve lived through.