Calculators
Claim Calculators & Tools
Tools to help you work out the financial losses arising from a personal injury claim — the money you have lost or spent because of the accident — and to check key dates in the claims process.
The calculators are being built and will appear on this page. What they will do, and what no calculator can do, is set out below.
Can a Calculator Tell Me What My Claim Is Worth?
No, not reliably. General damages for the injury itself are assessed on medical evidence against the ranges used for comparable injuries, not produced by a formula. What a calculator can do honestly is add up your financial losses — lost earnings, travel, treatment, care and equipment — which are sums of money rather than matters of judgement.
That distinction is worth understanding before using any tool of this kind, including ours. Compensation has two parts. General damages compensate for the injury itself: the pain, suffering and loss of amenity it has caused and the effect it has on day to day life. Those are matters of medical opinion and assessment, and they vary with the severity of the injury, the prognosis, your age and how the injury affects you specifically.
Special damages are the financial losses, and they are genuinely arithmetic. If you were paid £X per week and were off work for Y weeks, the past loss of earnings is a multiplication. If you made twelve journeys to hospital, the travel cost is a sum. That is the part a calculator can help with, and it is the part most claimants find hardest to keep track of.
The Calculators
The calculators are being built
We are building the tools listed below and will publish each one here as it is ready. Rather than show you a button that does not work yet, we have set out exactly what each one will calculate so you can see whether it will be useful to you.
In the meantime, working out your losses is something we can help with directly. If you have receipts, payslips or a note of the journeys and help you have needed, send them to us and a member of the team will go through them with you.
Loss of Earnings Calculator
Coming soonWorks out gross and net pay over a given period from an hourly rate, a weekly wage or an annual salary, so you can put a figure on income you have lost while you were unable to work.
What you would enter
- Your pay rate and how often you are paid
- The period you were off work
- Whether you want a gross or net figure
What you would get
A total of pay lost over the period you enter
Travel Expenses Calculator
Coming soonAdds up the journeys the accident has caused you to make — to hospital, doctors, physiotherapy, the pharmacy or your solicitor — and totals the mileage and the fares.
What you would enter
- Each journey and its purpose
- Mileage or public transport fare
- Parking and any other costs
What you would get
A total of travel costs, itemised
Care & Assistance Calculator
Coming soonTotals the help you have needed at home because of your injury — personal care, housework, gardening, shopping, childcare — by hours per week and the rate paid or the rate that would be paid.
What you would enter
- What help you needed and how often
- Hours per week and number of weeks
- The hourly rate, if anyone was paid
What you would get
A total value of care and assistance
Claim Time Limit Checker
Coming soonWorks out the date three years after an accident from the date you enter, and flags where you have told it that a different rule may apply, such as a child, a date of knowledge case or a criminal injury application.
What you would enter
- The date of the accident
- Whether you knew about the injury later
- Whether the claim is for a child or a CICA application
What you would get
A suggested key date, with a warning where a different rule may apply
What a Calculator Can and Cannot Do
We would rather explain the limits of these tools than let you rely on one more than it deserves. A calculator can add up your losses accurately. It cannot value your injury, and it cannot tell you what your claim will settle for.
Please read this before using any of them. A figure produced by a calculator is a total of what you have entered, not an assessment of your claim and not an indication of what it is worth.
No calculator can tell you what your injury is worth
General damages for the injury itself are assessed, not calculated. An independent medical expert examines you, reviews your records and reports on the severity and prognosis, and that report is measured against the ranges used for comparable injuries. A formula cannot do that, and any tool that appears to produce a settlement figure from an injury name is not giving you a reliable number.
Special damages are arithmetic, not valuation
The financial losses are different. Past loss of earnings, travel, treatment costs, care and equipment are sums of money that can be added up, and a calculator can do that part honestly — provided you enter the right information. That is what the tools on this page are for.
A figure from a calculator is not a settlement
Adding up your expenses tells you what you have spent or lost. It does not tell you what your claim is worth, what proportion of responsibility may be attributed to anyone else, or what evidence will be accepted. A total from a calculator is a starting point for a conversation, not an offer.
Nothing here is legal advice
These tools are aids to understanding and to keeping your own records in order. They do not consider your circumstances, they cannot account for what the evidence will show, and using one does not create a solicitor-client relationship.
What to Keep While You Wait
The single most useful thing you can do now is keep a record. Evidence of financial loss is far easier to establish from documents gathered as you go than from memory months later.
- Payslips, P60s or accounts showing what you earned before the accident.
- Anything from your employer confirming the time you had off, including SSP or sick notes.
- Receipts and tickets for travel to appointments, with the dates and the purpose.
- Mileage records, including parking and any tolls, for journeys you would not otherwise make.
- Invoices or receipts for treatment, prescriptions, equipment, aids or adaptations.
- A note of the practical help you have needed at home, who provided it and for how long.
We would suggest too that you avoid recording a running estimate of what you think the claim is worth. A list of what you have actually lost is far more useful — to us and to any expert later — than a figure assembled from a calculator.
Related Information
If what you actually want is an explanation of what can be claimed and how it is assessed, these pages cover it in detail.
Who Provides the Legal Services?
Injury Law Specialists is a marketing and advertising platform and is not a law firm or a provider of regulated legal services. All personal injury legal advice, casework and representation arranged through Injury Law Specialists are provided by MB Solicitors, a trading name of MB Legal Solicitors Ltd, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority under SRA ID 8000764.
The calculators and the guidance on this page are aids to understanding, not legal advice and not a valuation of any claim. Compensation can only be assessed on the medical evidence and the individual circumstances of a case. Our Legal Disclaimer sets out the basis on which this information is provided.
Want to be told when the calculators are published, or would rather have someone go through your losses with you now? You can get in touch — the initial assessment is free and there is no obligation to proceed.
Would You Rather Someone Worked It Out With You?
A calculator can total what you have lost. It cannot tell you what your claim is worth. Tell us what happened and a member of the team will explain what can be claimed, what evidence is needed and how the losses are put together.