{"id":373601,"date":"2016-11-17T14:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/state\/kentucky-law\/pain-and-suffering-damages-in-kentucky.html"},"modified":"2018-12-10T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T19:22:29","slug":"pain-and-suffering-damages-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/state\/kentucky-law\/pain-and-suffering-damages-in-kentucky.html","title":{"rendered":"Pain and Suffering Damages in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pain and Suffering Damages in Kentucky<\/h1>\n
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Kentucky may play host to the fastest horses in the world, but your only memories are of that one horse that decided to buck you. Now instead of mint juleps and fancy hats, you have been stuck at home with morphine, fighting for your sanity. Whether your injury is the result of a car, a Clydesdale, or a slip and fall in a cave, you may be entitled to pain and suffering damages in Kentucky.<\/p>\r\n

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In general, economic damages<\/a> are intended to "pay you back" for the monetary expenses you incur as a result of being injured. But what about your emotional distress<\/a>, pain and suffering<\/a>, or inconvenience? In Kentucky, you may recover noneconomic damages to compensate you for those damages which do not appear as line items in all those bills you keep getting in the mail. Noneconomic damages are available in many personal injury lawsuits, including:<\/p>\r\n