{"id":32797,"date":"2011-09-14T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/quantifying_pain_and_suffering\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:46:36","slug":"quantifying-pain-and-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/quantifying-pain-and-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantifying Pain And Suffering In Personal Injury Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is extremely difficult to quantify damages in a personal injury case<\/a>. While medical bills can be totalled and lost wages calculated, trying to calculate damages for pain and suffering is a different matter. When one is out of work for months at a time suffering from back pain, as an example, the question is: how does one go about trying to determine what would constitute fair and reasonable compensation for the pain and suffering attendant to the injury? The longer one suffers, the greater the damage. The more excruciating the pain, the greater the damage. Because pain and suffering is subjective, however, it is often difficult to determine what damages would be fair in a particular case.<\/p>\n

Many attorneys try to quantify pain and suffering based on a unit or hourly approach. If one is in pain and suffering sixteen hours out the day (assuming sleep for the other eight hours), what would constitute fair compensation for the extent of the pain and suffering: $10.00 an hour, $20.00 an hour, minimum wage or some other calculation?<\/p>\n

In Georgia, in a personal injury <\/a>context, the measure of damages for pain and suffering is the \u201cenlightened conscience\u201d of fair and impartial jurors. In other words, there is no measuring stick, per se, but rather a jury must determine money damages based on the totality of the circumstances involved in a particular case, that is what they believe would constitute fair and reasonable compensation for the pain and suffering element of a personal injury case.<\/p>\n

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It is extremely difficult to quantify damages in a personal injury case. While medical bills can be totalled and lost wages calculated, trying to calculate damages for pain and suffering is a different matter. When one is out of work for months at a time suffering from back pain, as an example, the question is: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-32797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"\nQuantifying Pain And Suffering In Personal Injury Cases — Trial Attorney Blog — September 14, 2011<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is extremely difficult to quantify damages in a personal injury case. 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