Chapter 4 of 9: What an injury is worth: Injury checker
Injury checker: what the Guidelines say it is worth
Checked 14 October 2026against the Personal Injuries Guidelines (adopted 6 March 2021) and the Board's 2025 report.
The Personal Injuries Guidelines give every injury a bracket for general damages, and the Board and the courts must have regard to them. This tool is the whole 2021 document, 260 brackets, in the Judicial Council's own words. It shows the bracket for an injury described like yours, drawn to scale. It is not a calculator and never gives a figure for your claim: no honest tool can.
Pick the part of the body or the kind of injury, then the description that fits
The pickers are the Guidelines’ own chapters, sections and bracket wording. The tool never asks what happened to you.
Tap the part of the body, or pick what a figure cannot show:
Nothing is chosen yet. Tap a part of the figure, pick a chip, or choose a section from the list, and the Guidelines’ brackets for it appear here.
The bracket is the Guidelines' range for the description chosen. Where an injury falls within it, whether more than one bracket applies, and what special damages are added are decided by the Board or a court on evidence. The tool never adds brackets together.