What is a herniated disc worth in a Florida injury case?
The question assumes value attaches to a diagnosis. It attaches to a person's circumstances.
What actually determines value. Whether the injury is permanent within a reasonable degree of medical probability. Whether treatment is complete or ongoing. Whether surgery is recommended, performed, or likely. The effect on work and income. The effect on daily function. Comparative fault. And, frequently the binding constraint, the available insurance coverage.
That last one dominates more often than people expect. A serious injury against a driver with minimum limits and no uninsured motorist coverage on your side produces a modest recovery regardless of how bad the injury is.
Why online figures mislead. A published range averages cases with wildly different facts, coverage, venues, and fault allocations. It tells you nothing about yours.
What's also changed. Since 2023, what a jury may hear about medical bills is limited to amounts actually paid rather than billed, which affects the economic damages component of every case.
Find out the policy limits first. That number constrains everything else. ---
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