Our Philadelphia sexual abuse lawyers are experienced in handling sexual abuse cases and will work to recover compensation and get justice. But what does justice look like in a civil lawsuit? Holding your abuser accountable means making your voice heard and securing a compensation package that covers the following:

• Medical expenses: Sexual assaults can cause injuries such as bruising, cuts, scrapes, and genital trauma, among others that require medical attention. Compensation can cover your medical expenses, including hospitalization, laboratory work, diagnostic tests, emergency care, doctor appointments, surgery, transportation, and future medical costs you incur due to the abuse.

• Lost income and benefits: You may be temporarily or even permanently unable to work because of your injuries, entitling you to compensation that covers your lost income and benefits, as well as future earnings you would have made had you been able to work.

• Physical therapy and counseling: You may not only suffer from physical injuries that could require physical therapy as part of your recovery but also emotional and mental scarring that requires counseling services.

• Cost of relocation: You may understandably fear for your safety if your abuser knows where you live. Compensation can cover the cost of relocation so you can feel safer and more secure.

• Pain and Suffering: Daily pain from your injuries, along with emotional distress, mental anguish, disfigurement, disability, loss of enjoyment, and psychological trauma, are all losses that compensation also covers. 

In addition, the court may further punish your abuser by ordering them to pay punitive damages for what they did to you. Compensation will not change what happened to you, but it can help you regain a sense of normalcy so you can begin to rebuild and move forward with your life. This is what justice looks like when TopDog Law Personal Injury Lawyers file civil litigation on your behalf.