Tackling the Measurability Problem of Physical Pain in Personal Injury Cases: The Case for Remembered Pain and for Disregarding Race and Gender
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description: Finally, this dissertation tackles the thorny issue of translating pain into money. I propose valuing pain using the willingness-to-pay formula, according to which jurors would ask themselves what is the maximum sum of money that a reasonable person would have been willing to pay to eliminate the risk of ending up with the remembered pain sustained by the plaintiff. This formula is superior to previous proposals because it focuses on the harm of the victim and on the ex ante probability that the harm would take place.
abstract: Finally, this dissertation tackles the thorny issue of translating pain into money. I propose valuing pain using the willingness-to-pay formula, according to which jurors would ask themselves what is the maximum sum of money that a reasonable person would have been willing to pay to eliminate the risk of ending up with the remembered pain sustained by the plaintiff. This formula is superior to previous proposals because it focuses on the harm of the victim and on the ex ante probability that the harm would take place.
author: Shavizky, Amir
language: eng
keywords: Law
date published: 2015-09-28T15:12:08Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:27Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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