A small, focused site: six calculators, a handful of guides, and one dataset, all pointed at the same question - what is the non-economic part of a claim actually worth?
Medical bills and lost paystubs are easy to add up. Pain, suffering, and the parts of daily life an injury takes away are not, and that gap is exactly where insurance adjusters have the most room to lowball a claimant who is negotiating without a number of their own. LegalClaimCalc started as a way to put the same multiplier and per-diem math adjusters use into the hands of the person on the other side of the table.
Six calculators: a general pain and suffering calculator that runs both valuation methods side by side, standalone multiplier and per-diem tools, a car accident version, a broader general damages calculator, and a full car accident compensation calculator that folds in medical costs, lost income, and a comparative-negligence adjustment. Alongside those sit a set of plain-English guides on how settlements get calculated and negotiated, an injury-by-injury settlement range breakdown, and the value factors reference, which documents the constants behind the calculators as a citable, downloadable dataset rather than burying them in a tool.
Article content on LegalClaimCalc is written by Priya Raman, who covers how legal and regulatory rules get applied in practice. Chris Terry owns the site and signs off on the calculator formulas and the sourcing behind the reference data before anything goes live. Full detail on how that process works, and the sources behind specific figures, is on the editorial standards page; the people involved are listed on authors.
It is not a law firm, a lawyer-matching service, or a substitute for one. Every calculator here runs entirely in your browser and produces a starting estimate, not a predicted settlement. Nothing you enter is transmitted anywhere. Real outcomes depend on facts a website cannot see: liability, the strength of your medical record, and how your state's fault rule applies to your specific case. That's a conversation for a licensed personal injury attorney, ideally one armed with the same numbers this site just helped you produce.