How this estimate is built
Your medical expenses and lost wages are your economic damages. We apply the multiplier method, the industry-standard approach, to estimate noneconomic damages — then apply Wyoming's fault rule and check whether the narrow government-claim cap genuinely applies.
A fault bar that favors the claimant at the exact threshold
Under Wyo. Stat. § 1-1-109(b), Wyoming bars recovery only when a claimant's contributory fault is more than 50% of the total fault of all actors — exactly 50% fault still allows recovery, reduced proportionally. Liability among defendants is generally several, not joint: under subsection (e), each defendant is liable only for that defendant's own proportion of the total fault.
A constitutional ban, not just an absent statute
Wyoming has no cap on damages against a private defendant — not because no legislature has gotten around to it, but because the Wyoming Constitution forbids it outright. Article 10, Section 4(a) states: "No law shall be enacted limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or death of any person." This applies to both economic and noneconomic damages, in medical malpractice and other personal injury claims alike. Lawmakers have proposed constitutional amendments that would let the legislature cap damages specifically for health care providers, but none has been enacted — the ban remains fully in place.
The one real exception: claims against the government
A $250,000 cap does apply to certain claims against government entities — a separate, sovereign-immunity-style limit that has nothing to do with the constitutional ban on capping damages against private defendants like doctors, drivers, or businesses.