Thanks for stopping by our website. I wanted to talk to you about our brand new personal injury calculator. We created the personal injury calculator so people could figure out, within a range, what their case is worth. Now, of course, there’s no better way to determine what your case is worth than speaking to an attorney. So, if you want to know a much more detailed explanation, certainly give us a call at 888-ROB-WINS, and one of the attorneys can talk to you and go through your case. We would look at your medical records, figure out the true value based on the real numbers, and what you tell us about your story.
But if you want to take your numbers and plug them into our calculator, it will ask you about your lost wages, your medical bills, and your total period of disability. If you’re employed and your doctor took you out of work, that’s a period of total disability. If you’re unemployed and your doctor wrote in your medical records that you’re totally disabled, that’s the same as if you were employed and taken out of work. Then, you would have your second period of time, which is your partial disability. Total and partial disability is used to calculate our pain and suffering value. Based on how many weeks you had pain and suffering, we use those numbers to calculate it. This is also based on the type of injuries you have.
The calculator will ask if you had a soft tissue injury, fractures, herniated discs, or a catastrophic injury. Based on your classification of injury, how long you were injured, and suffering, how long your doctor was treating you, plus the medical bills and lost wages, we are starting to calculate the value of your case. Then, we will look at your incidentals, any out-of-pocket costs, and your future costs. Did the doctor say you’re going to need treatment in the future? Will you need injections, or maybe even surgery? We will also talk about scarring. The calculator will ask you about the size and location of the scar.
Finally, and hopefully this is not the case for you, we will ask if you have a permanent injury. Permanent injury means you have reached what we call MMI, or maximum medical improvement. The doctor says you are done treating and as good as you are going to get, but if you’re less than 100% and haven’t returned to your pre-injury state, you have a permanent condition that will last for the rest of your life. We calculate a range of what your permanent injury is worth based on the percentage of loss of use the doctor gave you and your age. The federal lifetime tables say that someone has about 78 years to live. So, we take your age, subtract it from 78, and use your injury rating, based on your doctor’s loss of use assessment, to calculate this range.
We then give you a range, low to high, based on what we think your case is worth. Of course, this is without having talked to you, without fully understanding your condition, or reviewing your medical records. But if you want to get a range on your own, you can use our calculator. We don’t ask for your personal information, and it’s free to use. Just plug in your numbers, and you can play with them to see what it looks like.
But, if you want to speak to an attorney and get a real number, then give us a call. Remember, there is no attorney-client relationship built by just playing with the calculator. There is no legal advice given until you talk to an attorney. This is just to give you an idea of the range of what it is worth.
Now, if you look at other law firms’ calculators, almost every calculator I’ve looked at is kind of a joke. It uses some number you plug in, maybe your property damage, and a multiplier for your pain, like on a scale from one to five. That is not how we value cases. We value cases based on everything I just mentioned, lost wages, medical bills, pain and suffering, scarring, permanency, incidentals, and residuals. All of that is how we value a case, and we built this for you.
Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy using our calculator. Have a great day!
