Dog bite settlement calculator
This tool estimates what a dog bite claim with your numbers might be worth — and what you'd actually take home after a typical contingency fee. It works the way personal injury cases are commonly rough-valued: your documented economic losses (medical bills and lost wages) are multiplied by a severity factor that estimates the non-economic component, like pain and suffering.
Settlement value & take-home estimator
Enter your economic losses, pick an injury severity, and the tool applies a standard multiplier and an estimated attorney fee.
ER visit, surgery, stitches, imaging, prescriptions, follow-up care.
Work and paid leave you missed because of the bite.
The multiplier scales your economic losses into an estimated total, including pain and suffering.
Most dog bite attorneys work on contingency — you pay only if you recover.
Enter a medical bill or lost-wage amount above to see an estimated range.
The multiplier method is the way personal injury cases are commonly rough-valued, but it is an illustrative arithmetic exercise, not a valuation of your case. Real results vary widely with the facts, the state, insurance coverage, and the severity of your injuries — a serious-injury case in a state with a damages cap can land far below the range this tool shows. Nothing here is a prediction or legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is formed.
How the estimate is built
The multiplier method assumes your economic losses are a known baseline and asks: for an injury this serious, how much additional value do insurers and juries typically attach on top? Minor bites carry a low multiplier because they leave little permanent impact; serious and catastrophic injuries carry higher multipliers because pain, scarring, disfigurement and permanent impairment dominate the value.
The tool shows a range rather than a single number on purpose. Two cases with identical bills can settle at very different amounts depending on the state's liability rule, whether fault is disputed, the insurance policy at stake, and how injuries heal — none of which a form can capture. Use the range as a starting point for a real conversation, not as a valuation.
What’s missing from any calculator
Medical bills are not the same as medical value — providers, insurers and attorneys negotiate write-offs that change what a case is worth — and lost wages are only part of an income claim. States with caps on non-economic damages (like Alaska's or a comparative-fault bar) compress these numbers beyond what any national multiplier can reflect. For those reasons the estimate can significantly overstate or understate your actual range, and why a free case review with a local attorney is the only reliable next step.