How Lost Wages Are Proven in a Personal Injury Claim: What You Need to Document

Video Transcript

If you’re wondering how lost wages are proven in a personal injury claim, the short answer is we prove it with clean documentation. For many people, that means pay stubs, a letter from your employer confirming this time, and sometimes tax records. If you’re self-employed or you run a small business, it can involve invoices, bank statements, prior tax returns, and other proof of normal earnings. In more serious cases, we may also be dealing with loss of earning capacity, meaning your injury affects what you’ll be able to earn going forward, not just what you missed last month. That can involve work restrictions, medical opinions, and sometimes experts. The goal is to present the wage loss in a way that’s fair, accurate, and hard to dispute, so it doesn’t get minimized by an adjuster who’s never met you and doesn’t understand what the injury has done to your life.