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What is your personal injury case worth?
A free AI tool that sketches a realistic value range for your case in about five minutes — then connects you with a vetted attorney in your state.
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Most case-value calculators online are gimmicks. They take your medical bills, multiply by a fixed number, and give you a single confident figure. Real personal-injury cases do not work that way. The honest answer is always a range, and the range depends on a small number of specific things you can describe in about five minutes.
We built this tool to give you that range — not a fake precise number — using the same mental model the good lawyers actually use when they price a case.
What goes into the estimate
Every personal-injury case is built from the same three categories of compensation.
Medical expenses
Every dollar of treatment caused by the incident, plus reasonable future care. Usually the largest single number and the easiest to document.
Lost income
Wages missed during recovery, plus any long-term effect on what you can earn. Clean for salaried workers; more nuanced for the self-employed.
Pain and suffering
Physical pain, mental distress, loss of normal enjoyment of life, scarring. No receipt for this — juries assign a number, adjusters guess what a jury would.
The shortcut lawyers actually use
For everyday cases that settle without trial, adjusters and lawyers run a rough calculation. They add up the medical bills (the “medical specials”), multiply by some number — usually between 1.5 and 5 — to estimate pain and suffering, then add lost income on top.
The multiplier is the entire argument. A clearly liable rear-end with whiplash is a 1.5. A trucking case with a herniated disc, surgery, and permanent restriction is a 5. A catastrophic spinal-cord injury breaks the multiplier model entirely.
What lowers the range
- • Gaps in treatment (missed appointments)
- • Social media that contradicts your reported injuries
- • Recorded statements given to the other insurer
- • Ambiguous liability or no police report
- • Low at-fault policy limits
What lifts the range
- • Consistent treatment, every appointment kept
- • A clean police report and a citation
- • Independent witnesses with no skin in the game
- • A short journal of symptoms and impact
- • An attorney engaged within the first 60 days
Any tool — or lawyer — that hands you a single number on the first call is selling you something. Real cases are priced after the records come in. Our estimate is a starting range, not a quote.
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