Medical costs
Collect bills, payment histories, insurance explanations, and provider balances. Keep past amounts separate from estimates of future care, which generally require appropriate supporting evidence.
Income and work impact
Preserve wage statements, schedules, leave records, employer letters, tax records where relevant, and documentation of restrictions. Distinguish time missed from reduced capacity or future projections.
Property and replacement services
Keep repair estimates, receipts, photographs, valuation documents, rental costs, and invoices for services you could not perform. Rules governing recoverability differ by claim and jurisdiction.
Noneconomic harm
Use a factual chronology of symptoms, limitations, sleep, treatment, and affected activities. Avoid multipliers or promises of value; damages law, proof, causation, and fact-finder judgment all matter.