Sample Full Report page — the Full Report includes the complete timeline, present-value total, and fringe-benefit calculations.
Answer 12 questions and get a free Damages Snapshot: a lost-earnings range, emailed to you as a link within minutes. When the case moves, order the Full Report: year-by-year tables, employer-paid benefits, a worklife-based horizon, and every assumption stated in print, for $250.
You do not want to hire an economist to find out whether the case justifies one. You also do not want to walk into mediation with a number you cannot explain. injuryeconomics.com fixes both.
Seven of them set the number: date of birth, sex, education, earnings before the injury, date of injury, whether the plaintiff can work now, and current earning capacity if they can. From those you get a lost-earnings range, projected over a statistical worklife expectancy and discounted to today. Enter your email, click the link we send, and the range is on screen. Two Damages Snapshots a month are free. No card, no account.
The other five (state, employment status, household services, pre-existing conditions, and case posture) do not change the range. They tell us whether the matter has features a calculator should not guess at. If it does, the results page says so and offers a review by an economist.
The Full Report turns a range into a number you can explain to opposing counsel. Enter the case facts on one form: case name, date of injury, age, sex, education, earnings before and after the injury, and when post-injury earnings began. Choose the horizon: statistical worklife expectancy, or a fixed retirement age when the case supports one. You get, as a formatted PDF with the case name and jurisdiction:
Edit the inputs and regenerate the same case as often as you like at no charge. Download the stored report any time.
| Damages Snapshot | Full Report | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free, two per month, no card | $250, or unlimited with an annual seat |
| Based on | Seven facts: age, sex, education, earnings before injury, injury date, whether the plaintiff can work now, current earning capacity | The case facts you enter on the Full Report form: injury date, age, sex, education, earnings before and after, start of post-injury earnings |
| Output | Low-to-high lost-earnings range on screen | Formatted PDF with the case name |
| Lost earnings | Range | Year-by-year tables, past and future, with present value |
| Employer-paid benefits | Not included | Included as fixed percentages of salary |
| Earnings horizon | Statistical worklife expectancy | Statistical worklife expectancy, or a retirement age you choose |
| Household services | Flagged for economist review | Optional add-on ($100, included with the annual seat): replacement-cost valuation of lost household work, projected to life expectancy, in its own section |
| Pre-existing conditions | Flagged for economist review | Not apportioned; the Full Report says so |
| Assumptions | Summarized on screen | Stated in print, with the worklife source cited |
| Use it for | Screening, intake, deciding whether to retain an expert | Demand letters, mediation, settlement, briefing your expert |
Two or more attorneys? Firm accounts are $600 for the first seat and $400 per additional seat, set up by our team — contact us and we will have it running the same day.
Full Reports are a consulting work product — a useful preliminary calculation, not a substitute for a retained expert's report.
A lost-earnings range calculated from seven facts about the plaintiff, projected over a statistical worklife expectancy and discounted to present value. You enter your email, click the link we send, and the range is on screen within minutes. It is built for screening a case, not for filing. Two free each month.
A number instead of a range, on a case you enter in full: year-by-year tables of past and future loss, employer-paid benefits, a stated horizon with its source, stated growth and discount rates, and a Scope and Limitations section, delivered as a PDF you can download again any time. $250 per Full Report, or unlimited with an annual seat. Firms pay $600 for the first seat and $400 for each additional attorney. Lost household services can be added to any Full Report for $100, and are included with the annual seat.
Apportionment for pre-existing conditions, taxes, collateral-source offsets such as workers' compensation, and defined-benefit pensions. Those need an economist's judgment on facts a form cannot collect reliably. The Full Report says so on its last page, so nobody reading it is surprised. Lost household services are the exception: they can be added as a $100 add-on, valued at replacement cost from the hours you report and projected to life expectancy.
No. The Damages Snapshot is anonymous screening. The Full Report starts from a short form where you enter the case facts directly. It takes about as long as the Damages Snapshot did.
No. It is the step before one. The Full Report is labeled consulting work product, not expert testimony. Use it to size the case, prepare a demand, or negotiate. If the case goes to trial, you will still want a retained expert, and the Full Report gives that expert a head start.
Yes. That is what it is built for. The Full Report states its methods, its assumptions, and its limits so the other side can see where the number comes from.
Worklife expectancy from the Skoog, Ciecka and Krueger (2011) tables, built on Current Population Survey data. Wage growth from the ten-year average of the Consumer Price Index. A net discount rate derived from published wage growth and Treasury yields. Plus the case facts you enter.
Settlement calculators multiply medical bills by a factor. This tool calculates economic loss the way an expert does: earnings and benefits, projected over worklife, discounted to present value, with the assumptions written down.
No. The forms ask plain questions. The Full Report explains each column and each assumption.
The Damages Snapshot never asks for a client's name. Your answers and email are kept so we can send your results link and one follow-up. Full Report cases are stored in your password-protected account until you delete them, and everything travels over an encrypted connection. We do not sell or share your data.
Two Damages Snapshots a month are free, no card needed. The Full Report is $250 when you want it.
Sample Full Report page — the Full Report includes the complete timeline, present-value total, and fringe-benefit calculations.