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Estimate what your injury claim could be worth
Get a calm, straightforward estimate of your settlement in minutes, using the multiplier and per diem methods, the two most common ways to estimate pain and suffering. No pressure, no spam.
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Which Calculator Should You Use?
All three tools share the same underlying settlement math, but each one answers a different question, and picking the wrong one will leave money out of your estimate.
Pain & Suffering is the general-purpose tool: use it any time you have medical bills, lost wages, and a physical injury but no vehicle involved — a slip and fall, a dog bite, a workplace injury outside the workers’ comp system, or any other personal injury claim. It calculates non-economic damages using the multiplier method or the per diem method, and adds them to your economic damages for a total estimate.
Car Accident is a wrapper around that same pain-and-suffering math, built specifically for collision claims. Use it instead of the general calculator whenever a vehicle is involved — it adds vehicle damage as a separate line item that’s included in your economic total but deliberately excluded from the pain-and-suffering multiplier base, and it lets you enter the at-fault driver’s insurance policy limit to see whether your estimate exceeds what their coverage can actually pay.
Workers Comp is a genuinely different system, not a variant of the other two. If you were hurt on the job, workers’ compensation is a no-fault system where pain and suffering generally isn’t recoverable at all — instead you receive wage-replacement and impairment-based benefits (TTD, PPD, or PTD) set by your state’s statutory schedule. Use this calculator, not the general one, for any workplace injury.
All three run entirely in your browser — nothing you type is sent to a server, stored, or sold, and none of them require an email address or signup to see a result. If your state isn’t one of the ones we’ve published a dedicated guide for, the general calculators still work: the underlying formulas aren’t state-specific, only the surrounding legal context (caps, fault rules, deadlines) is.
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Know Your State’s Maximum Weekly Benefit
Every state caps workers’ comp benefits at a maximum weekly rate, no matter how high your wages were. We sourced the current max and min weekly TTD rate for all 50 states and DC directly from each state’s own agency — see the full table, methodology, and downloadable CSV.
How it works
How Settlement Estimates Work
Step 1: Industry Formulas
Our calculators use the multiplier method and per diem method, the two most common ways to estimate pain and suffering.
Step 2: State-Specific Laws
Fault rules, damage caps, and statutes of limitations vary by state. Each state calculator reflects current local law.
Step 3: Estimates Only
Results are informed estimates, not legal advice. Actual settlements depend on your specific evidence, insurance limits, and negotiation.
Every formula, source, and review date behind these numbers is disclosed on our methodology page. We don’t use a black-box score — you can see exactly how each figure is calculated and where the legal figures come from.
State-Specific Guides
Fault rules, damage caps, and benefit schedules vary by state. These pages account for local law on top of the general formula.
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