What is a normal settlement for a broke ankle which needed a plate and screws?
I’m not a Pennsylvania attorney, but your question raises several interesting points of general law, so here goes: 1. There is no ‘price guide’ for personal injury. You’re entitled to be compensated with a financial settlement (assuming that liability has been established, and it sounds like, in your case, it has been) for the economic value of your medical expenses (past and future); lost earning capacity (again, present and future): your ‘pain and suffering’, and loss of enjoyment of life; and expected ‘disability’ (whether partial or, if your recovery is incomplete, future). Many of these items don’t carry price tags, and juries are eventually called upon to calculate these sums, based upon their own experience and empathy, if a case is tried. Obviously, to each person, their subjective experience of their injury is different, so the same ‘type’ of injury to each individual victim may actually carry a different ‘damages’ calculation, both from the victim’s point of view and from a j
