Can I get compensation for my scars?
Yes. Significant and permanent scarring or disfigurement independently satisfies the serious injury threshold for non-economic damages.
That's important because it doesn't require establishing permanent loss of a bodily function. Visible permanent scarring qualifies on its own.
What affects value. Location and visibility. Size and appearance. Age and gender have been treated as relevant by juries, whatever one thinks of that. Whether revision surgery is possible, and what it would cost. And the psychological effect, which is real and compensable.
What to document. Photographs at every stage — immediately, during healing, and at the point the scar has matured. That progression is powerful evidence and it can't be recreated later.
Consult a plastic surgeon where scarring is significant. An opinion on permanence, on whether revision is possible, and on the cost of revision converts a description into a quantified claim.
Future revision costs are recoverable as economic damages.
Photograph it through the whole healing process. That sequence is the evidence. ---
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