How this estimate is built
Your medical expenses and lost wages are your economic damages — the easy-to-document part, and these are never capped in Connecticut. We then apply the multiplier method, the same approach insurers and attorneys use industry-wide, to estimate pain and suffering: your economic damages multiplied by a factor of 1.5 to 5, depending on how serious the injury actually was.
No cap on economic or non-economic damages
Connecticut places no statutory ceiling on either economic or non-economic damages in an ordinary personal injury case. Pain and suffering, medical costs, and lost wages can all be recovered in full based on the evidence presented — there's no artificial limit to run into.
The one real limit sits on punitive damages, not pain and suffering
Where Connecticut does impose a genuinely unusual limit is punitive damages — and even that rarely affects an ordinary claim. Under Connecticut common law, punitive damages are capped at the plaintiff's litigation expenses and attorney's fees, rather than a multiple of compensatory damages as most states allow. A separate statutory cap under Connecticut General Statutes § 52-240b limits punitive damages to twice compensatory damages, but only in product liability cases specifically. Neither limit touches your economic or non-economic damages.
Your own fault still has a hard cutoff
Connecticut follows modified comparative negligence with a 51% bar: if your fault is 50% or less, your recovery is reduced proportionally. Reach 51% fault, and you recover nothing. See our Connecticut comparative negligence calculator for the full rule.