{"id":371723,"date":"2016-11-02T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/state\/arkansas-law\/pain-and-suffering-damages-in-arkansas.html"},"modified":"2018-12-10T17:51:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:51:36","slug":"pain-and-suffering-damages-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/state\/arkansas-law\/pain-and-suffering-damages-in-arkansas.html","title":{"rendered":"Pain and Suffering Damages in Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pain and Suffering Damages in Arkansas<\/h1>\n
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It has been a year since you woke up from your ACL surgery and knew that something just wasn\u2019t right<\/a>. Every morning, you used to wake up early, do yoga as the sun rose, and make your kids breakfast before walking them to the school bus and then waving as the school bus drove away. Now, you finally can hobble<\/a> around to make your kids breakfast, but you are in too much pain<\/a> to be a parent chaperone to this year’s Pinnacle Mountain State Park field trip. While it might be tough to see the sunny side of things these days, you should know that you may be entitled to pain and suffering damages in Arkansas.<\/p>\r\n

Noneconomic Damages<\/h2>\r\n

In Arkansas, pain and suffering damages are one type of non-economic damages that may be available to you. Non-economic damages are not intended to pay you back for bills you incurred as a result of your injury. Instead, non-economic damages are intended to compensate you for injuries you suffered which are harder to put a price tag on. Juries understand that injured parties should be given a monetary award for the impact that pain and suffering has an on injured person’s life.<\/p>\r\n

Read the table below along with the accompanying explanations to learn more about how to recover pain and suffering damages in Arkansas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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  • Three years for accidental personal injury (Ark. Stat. \u00a7 16-56-105)<\/li>\r\n
  • Two years for medical malpractice (Ark. Stat. \u00a7 16-114-203)<\/li>\r\n
  • One year for intentional personal injury (Ark. Stat. \u00a7 16-56-104)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>

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