Can Victims Recover Therapy Costs Through a Lawsuit?

Many sexual abuse victims rely on therapy, which can be incredibly expensive, especially when necessary regularly for multiple years. You should not have to pay for these sessions yourself, and you can seek compensation for damages through a lawsuit.

You can most likely recover therapy costs through a sexual abuse lawsuit. Therapy costs are part of your economic damages, which also include medical bills and lost wages. Our lawyers can prove the cost of therapy sessions with invoices and prove the necessity of therapy with statements from mental health experts and victims themselves.

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Can Sexual Abuse Victims Recover Therapy Costs from a Lawsuit?

Sexual abuse victims can typically recover compensation for therapy costs in lawsuits against individual abusers or institutions that are liable for abuse.

Can Victims Recover Future Therapy Costs Through a Lawsuit?

In addition to compensation for therapy you have received to date, you can also recover compensation for future therapy sessions that our attorneys for victims of sexual abuse and your providers anticipate you needing.

What Kinds of Therapy Costs Can Sexual Abuse Victims Recover Through a Lawsuit?

Sexual abuse victims can recover compensation for all sorts of therapy costs associated with processing their trauma, including one-on-one therapy, group therapy, psychiatric evaluations, specialized trauma-informed treatment, and more.

Are Therapy Costs Economic or Non-Economic Damages?

Therapy costs are part of your economic damages from sexual abuse, not your non-economic damages, even though therapy might be what helps you work through your pain and suffering, which are non-economic damages.

Is There a Limit to How Much Victims Can Recover for Therapy Costs?

States typically don’t cap economic damages for sexual abuse plaintiffs, so there is generally no limit to how much victims can recover for therapy costs, current and future.

How Long Do Sexual Abuse Victims Have to Recover Therapy Costs Through a Lawsuit?

How long victims have to recover therapy costs through a sexual abuse lawsuit typically depends on their age when they were abused.

Victims Abused as Children

Most states have a separate statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits. For children, the statute of limitations does not start to run until victims turn 18. From that date, the statute of limitations begins, and you could have decades to bring a claim, depending on your state.

Not all states have long statutes of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits, so don’t assume you will have many years to sue after turning 18.

Victims Abused as Adults

Most states do not have a separate statute of limitations for adults who suffer sexual abuse, and typically require them to file within the normal personal injury statute of limitations, which may only be a couple of years.

How Often Do Sexual Abuse Victims Need Therapy Costs Covered?

Therapy costs are extremely common economic damages among sexual abuse victims, so these damages are often sought in lawsuits as part of victims’ tangible damages.

Do You Need a Lawyer to Recover Therapy Costs Through a Sexual Abuse Lawsuit?

You need a lawyer to recover therapy costs through a sexual abuse lawsuit so that you get compensation for damages to date as well as future damages you will incur from ongoing therapeutic services.

How Do You Prove Therapy Costs Through a Sexual Abuse Lawsuit?

To prove therapy costs in a sexual abuse lawsuit, our lawyers can compile and present bills and invoices from all therapeutic services you have received to date to help you process the trauma you endured.

How Do Sexual Abuse Victims Calculate Future Therapy Costs?

To calculate future therapy costs, our lawyers can multiply the cost per session by the expected frequency and duration of therapeutic services, whether that is months or years.

How Do Sexual Abuse Victims Prove Therapy Costs Are Necessary?

We can demonstrate the necessity of therapy for sexual abuse victims so that they get compensation for such expenses.

Expert Witness Statements

Statements from mental health experts and therapists can confirm that a particular victim does need regular therapy to cope with the many non-economic harms left from sexual abuse.

Victim Testimony

Your testimony can also help us prove that therapy expenses are necessary by explaining more about your pain and suffering and other intangible harms to the jury.

Can Sexual Abuse Victims Recover Therapy Costs by Settling a Lawsuit?

Sexual abuse victims regularly recover damages for therapy costs by settling their lawsuits and never going to court. This doesn’t happen immediately, however, and usually requires aggressive, sometimes lengthy negotiations.

Can Sexual Abuse Victims Recover Therapy Costs with Gaps in Their Care?

It becomes harder for sexual abuse victims to recover therapy costs in full if they have gaps in their care from missing sessions. Take your mental health seriously during a lawsuit, and remain committed to attending all scheduled therapy sessions.

Can Sexual Abuse Victims Recover Therapy Costs without Testifying?

Therapy costs are part of your economic damages, so our lawyers can prove them using documentary evidence like bills. A victim’s testimony helps explain why therapy costs are necessary, not their value.

Who Can Be Liable for a Victim’s Therapy Costs in a Sexual Abuse Lawsuit?

Individual abusers and institutions can be liable for sexual abuse, making them responsible for covering victims’ therapy costs and other damages, both economic and non-economic.

Individual Abuser

An individual abuser can be liable for a victim’s therapy costs and other damages from sexual abuse, both economic and non-economic.

Larger Institution

Victims may recover all therapy costs, current and future, as well as all other economic and non-economic damages by suing liable institutions for sexual abuse, such as schools, churches, hospitals, mental health facilities, and more.

Get Help from Our Lawyers with Your Case

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