In any personal injury case, you only deserve compensation if you can prove you were injured.

Well, what happens when you were already suffering from an injury when someone's negligence injures the same part of your body again?

Let's say before an accident, your back hurt, and after the accident, your back still hurts, but this time worse?

Should the victim get nothing?  Under La. law, 2 rules apply:

The person who causes an accident "takes his victim as he finds him."  That means, if someone is in a fragile or weakened condition to begin with, if an injury causes them greater harm than the same injury would cause to a healthy person, the wrongdoer buys that injury.

The other rule is, he is responsible for the "Aggravation of any Pre-existing Condition" to the degree he makes the condition worse.

Sometimes that's very difficult to prove, legally and medically, and you'd need an experienced lawyer to do so.

I'm attorney Greg DiLeo, and this has been your legal minute.