How a Car Accident Lawyer Calculates Pain and Suffering
Every serious collision leaves two parallel stories. One runs on a spreadsheet: hospital bills, lost wages, mileage to physical therapy. The other runs in a person’s body and mind: throbbing pain at 3 a.m., the knot of anxiety at every intersection, the season missed coaching a kid’s team because lifting a bat hurts. The first story is called economic damages. The second, pain and suffering, sits under non-economic damages. Putting a number to that second story is where the