The authorities we cite.
Every band on MyClaimWorth traces to one or more of the sources on this page. The list is not exhaustive of all citations — many country and injury pages also cite individual reported decisions — but it captures the standing authorities we treat as canonical. Each entry names the source, the jurisdiction it governs, what it does, where to find it, and the date we last consulted it.
For a narrative explanation of how we move from these sources to the bands shown on country pages, see /methodology. For our editorial standards, see /editorial-standards.
Published by the Judicial College, an arm of the Judiciary of England and Wales. Updated every two years; the 16th edition is the current edition. Persuasive in Northern Ireland and routinely consulted in Scotland alongside Scots-law authority.
Last consulted: 2026-05Statutory tariff for soft-tissue neck injuries arising on or after 31 May 2021. Supersedes the JCG bands within the tariff’s scope.
Last consulted: 2026-05Three-year limitation period for personal injury claims, running from date of injury or date of knowledge.
Last consulted: 2026-05The Scottish equivalent. Three-year limitation under s.17 (formerly s.18A).
Last consulted: 2026-05Replaced the prior Book of Quantum. Used by both the Personal Injuries Assessment Board and the courts to assess general damages.
Last consulted: 2026-05Two-year limitation period for personal injury claims.
Last consulted: 2026-05Pre-litigation assessment data published periodically by the State Claims Agency.
Last consulted: 2026-05- Andrews v Grand & Toy Alberta Ltd. [1978] 2 S.C.R. 229
Establishes the non-pecuniary damages cap. The cap is inflation-adjusted by the Bank of Canada CPI per Lindal v Lindal.
Last consulted: 2026-05 - Thornton v Prince George School District No. 57 [1978] 2 S.C.R. 267
Trilogy companion case to Andrews; same cap applied to a paraplegic student-claimant.
Last consulted: 2026-05 - Arnold v Teno [1978] 2 S.C.R. 287
Trilogy companion; the cap applied in a child-pedestrian case.
Last consulted: 2026-05 First-party accident benefits framework; sits alongside the tort claim against the at-fault party.
Last consulted: 2026-05CTP framework for motor injury, administered by SIRA and icare.
Last consulted: 2026-05TAC scheme governing transport-injury compensation in Victoria.
Last consulted: 2026-05CTP framework for Queensland, administered by MAIC.
Last consulted: 2026-05- Civil Liability Acts (each Australian state and territory)
State-by-state caps, thresholds, and assessment frameworks for general damages outside the CTP sphere.
Last consulted: 2026-05 Limits and structures recovery against the federal government; bars punitive damages.
Last consulted: 2026-05Governs railway-worker injury claims.
Last consulted: 2026-05Governs seafarer-injury claims.
Last consulted: 2026-05The Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, restructured by AB 35 effective 1 January 2023, with a phased schedule split between cases involving death and cases not involving death.
Last consulted: 2026-05Reformed Florida tort law, including the personal-injury statute of limitations from four years to two.
Last consulted: 2026-05Three-year statute of limitations for personal injury.
Last consulted: 2026-05Insurance industry data on settlement averages, claim frequencies, and reform impact.
Last consulted: 2026-05Federal source on civil case dispositions, jury verdicts, and trial duration.
Last consulted: 2026-05Mandatory points-based scale for road traffic personal injury. Updated annually by Royal Decree published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado. Tables 2.A (permanent), 2.B (temporary), 2.C (moral damage), and supplementary tables for life-shortening, severe deformity, and dependent care.
Last consulted: 2026-05Annual percentage-of-impairment tables published by the Court of Milan and applied throughout Italy by Cassazione endorsement. Convert percentage of permanent disability (danno biologico) to euros, age-adjusted.
Last consulted: 2026-05- Article 2947 Civil Code (Italy)
Two-year limitation period for personal injury (five years for non-tortious civil claims; ten years for medical professional liability in some readings).
Last consulted: 2026-05 - Schmerzensgeldtabelle (Hacks/Wellner; Beck’sche Schmerzensgeldtabelle)
Compilations of court decisions on Schmerzensgeld organised by injury category and severity. Treated by practitioners as the canonical quantum reference under § 253 BGB.
Last consulted: 2026-05 Three-year limitation period running from the end of the year in which the claimant knew of the harm.
Last consulted: 2026-05Strict liability of the keeper of a motor vehicle for resulting personal injury and property damage.
Last consulted: 2026-05- Référentiel Mornet
Non-statutory but widely used reference for personal injury quantum, updated periodically by a working group of judges.
Last consulted: 2026-05 - Nomenclature Dintilhac (2005)
Court-developed taxonomy of heads of loss, distinguishing pre- and post-consolidation, pecuniary and non-pecuniary heads.
Last consulted: 2026-05 Near-strict liability of motorists toward non-driver victims; substantially streamlines compensation in motor cases.
Last consulted: 2026-05Five-year general limitation period for personal injury (ten years for medical-negligence cases).
Last consulted: 2026-05Used to inflation-adjust UK source figures predating the publication date of a band.
Last consulted: 2026-05Used to inflation-adjust the Andrews non-pecuniary cap per the courts’ practice in Lindal v Lindal.
Last consulted: 2026-05Used to adjust US dollar figures predating publication.
Last consulted: 2026-05
A note on copyright.
The Judicial College Guidelines, the Personal Injuries Guidelines, the Tabelle Milanesi, the Schmerzensgeldtabelle and similar authority documents are copyright works of their publishers and the relevant judicial bodies. We summarise, attribute, and link to the official source. We do not republish copyrighted text verbatim. Quotations of statutes and reported decisions follow the fair-use and fair-dealing conventions of the relevant jurisdiction.
Suggesting a source.
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