EDITORIAL POLICY
Most personal injury calculator sites don’t tell you who is actually behind the numbers they show you. We think that matters, especially for a tool people use while dealing with a real injury and a confusing legal process. This page explains who builds our content, how we source it, and what happens when something needs to be corrected.
Our Editorial Standards
Content on this site is held to the following standards before it’s published:
Accuracy First
Claims, statistics, and legal references are checked against primary sources before anything goes live. We do not present a single invented number as “the average settlement” when the honest answer is a range that depends on several variables. If the data is uncertain, we say so rather than rounding it off to something cleaner-sounding.
Plain Language, Real Terminology
Legal concepts are explained so a person without a law degree can actually follow them, without stripping out the nuance that makes the explanation accurate. Where a specific legal term or statute matters, we use it and explain it, rather than avoiding it for the sake of simplicity.
Completeness Without Padding
We cover the factors that actually affect a case’s value — jurisdiction, comparative fault rules, treatment documentation, insurance limits — without stretching content to hit a word count.
Source Attribution
When we cite a statistic, a study, or a legal rule, we identify where it came from at the point we state it, not buried in a footnote you’d have to go looking for.
Where Our Information Comes From
Our settlement methodology and reference data draw on publicly available, verifiable sources, including:
Insurance industry research, including reports from organizations such as the Insurance Research Council and the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I)
- Published jury verdict and settlement data compiled by commercial verdict reporting services and legal analytics databases (such as VerdictSearch and similar sources)
- Government traffic and safety data, including NHTSA crash and injury statistics
- Bar association guidance on legal standards and practice considerations, along with consumer legal research publications such as Martindale-Nolo materials
- State statutes and codes governing comparative negligence, filing deadlines, and damages in Illinois and other U.S. jurisdictions referenced in our methodology
- We do not rely on anonymous claims, unverified submissions, or data that cannot be reasonably traced to credible, verifiable sources.
How Content Gets Reviewed
Content on this site is written and reviewed under the direction of a licensed attorney before publication. As our content library grows, our review workflow will grow with it — but the standard stays the same at every stage: nothing goes live that our own editorial oversight can’t stand behind with a real source. We would rather publish less content that we can fully verify than more content padded with unsupported claims.
Keeping Content Current
Law changes. Statutes get amended, courts issue new rulings, and settlement trends shift over time. We review our state-law and methodology pages periodically and update them when the underlying law changes. If you notice something that looks out of date, we want to know — see the corrections process below.
Corrections Policy
We’re a small, attorney-directed operation, and we would rather be transparent about mistakes than pretend we don’t make them. If you find an error on this site — a factual mistake, an outdated statute reference, or a calculator issue — contact us using the information below.
- Minor issues (typos, formatting) are corrected as we find or are told about them, without a formal notice.
- Material errors — anything that could affect your understanding of your case or your rights — are corrected promptly, with a visible note on the affected page describing what changed and when.
- Calculator errors are treated as a priority and are investigated and fixed as quickly as we’re able once confirmed.
How We’re Compensated — and Why It Doesn’t Change Our Numbers
Case Value Assessment™ may receive compensation when a user is connected with an attorney through this Site, consistent with applicable rules governing attorney referrals and advertising.
This compensation does not affect how case estimates are generated. The methodology is applied consistently regardless of whether a user ever speaks with an attorney through our platform. We do not adjust results to encourage or discourage referrals.
Full details are provided in our Disclaimer.
Contact Us
Questions about how our content is built, sourced, or reviewed — or a correction to report — can be directed to the Mid-Atlantic Law Project, operator of Case Value Assessment™, at (800) 596-4003 or [email protected]