What is my injury claim worth?
There's no fixed price tag on an injury — but there is a way claims are valued. Here's how settlements are built, what moves the number up, and what your case may be worth. When you're ready, a licensed attorney will review yours for free.
The record behind your claim — Conduit Law
Two kinds of damages.
Almost every injury settlement is built from two buckets of harm. The first is the money you can count. The second is everything the injury cost you that never came with an invoice — and it's often the larger of the two.
Economic damages
The bills you can add up: emergency and ongoing medical care, future treatment, lost wages, and lost earning capacity if you can't return to the same work.
Non-economic damages
The harm that has no invoice: pain and suffering, emotional distress, permanent scarring or disability, and the loss of things you used to enjoy.
In rare cases, punitive damages
When conduct is especially reckless, the law sometimes allows additional damages meant to punish, not just to compensate. These are the exception, not the rule.
Five things that change what your claim is worth.
How clear the liability is
The stronger the proof that someone else caused your injury, the more leverage you have. Disputed fault lowers the number.
Severity and permanence
A full recovery is worth less than an injury that leaves lasting pain, scarring, or limits on what you can do.
Available insurance
A claim is only as collectible as the insurance behind it. Policy limits often set the practical ceiling on a settlement.
Quality of your documentation
Consistent medical treatment, photos, and records raise value. Gaps in care are the first thing an insurer uses to discount you.
Whether you're represented
A claim that's fully documented and valued by a lawyer is simply taken more seriously. Representation reliably changes the conversation.
What specific injuries are worth.
Value depends on the kind of injury. These guides break down the ranges and the factors for the claims we handle most.
Dog Bite
What dog-bite and animal-attack claims are worth, and what drives the number.
See settlement amounts →Food Poisoning
Restaurant and foodborne-illness claim value, and what proves it.
See settlement amounts →Spinal Cord Injury
Catastrophic spinal and paralysis claim value, and why it runs high.
See settlement amounts →Burn Injury
Burn-injury and scarring claim value, by degree and severity.
See settlement amounts →Want a real number? Ask a lawyer — free.
A calculator can't see your medical records or the insurance behind your claim. A licensed attorney can — and the review costs nothing, with no fee unless we win.