Start with the missing fact
If you cannot identify the incident date, potential parties, treatment history, income records, insurer communications, or record custodian, gather that information before treating a calculated result as useful.
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Personal injury tools & calculators
Free, instant tools to understand your California injury claim — estimate its value, check your deadline, and see whether you have a case.
Settlement Calculator
Estimate what a California injury claim could be worth — enter medical bills and lost wages for a personalized range.
Open toolFiling Deadline Calculator
Find your statute-of-limitations date. Enter the accident date and claim type to see how long you have left.
Open toolDo I Have a Case?
A free 60-second screener — answer 5 questions to see whether you may have a California injury claim.
Open toolAccident Statistics
Explore Hurt Advice editorial city crash models, source notes, and official comparison resources without treating estimates as agency extracts.
Open toolEmbed our data on your site
Journalists, bloggers, and local organizations are welcome to embed our California crash statistics and settlement data — free, with a link back. You’ll find a copy-paste embed snippet on each accident-statistics and settlement-calculator page.
Research workflow
Choose a tool by the decision you need to make
Each tool answers a different organizing question. The settlement calculator inventories possible loss categories. The deadline calculator flags timing questions. The case screener identifies facts that may justify a closer review. The statistics pages provide editorial city context and source notes. None of these tools determines fault, diagnoses an injury, establishes a deadline, or predicts an outcome.
Keep value and timing separate
A larger estimated loss does not extend a filing period. A date estimate does not prove liability or damages. Record both questions in one chronology but verify them through the appropriate source.
Preserve source records
Keep reports, photographs, videos, medical charts, bills, employment records, policy letters, repair documents, and submission confirmations. A tool is most useful when every input can be traced to a record.
Escalate uncertainty early
Public entities, commercial vehicles, disputed coverage, delayed symptoms, multiple defendants, and missing evidence can change the analysis. Use the output as a preparation sheet for individual professional review.
Continue with the right evidence surface
Organize loss categories
Estimate a range without treating it as a guaranteed value.
Flag deadline questions
Compare the event date with broad California timing rules.
Screen core claim signals
Review injury, fault, causation, insurance, and urgency.
Read the source methodology
Distinguish official records from Hurt Advice editorial models.
Add local record context
Find city-specific roads, hospitals, courts, and custodians.
Compare canonical profiles
Review license, firm, language, and practice-area signals.
Use the tools as a sequence
A calculator result is a starting point, not a case conclusion
Each tool answers a different planning question. The settlement calculator organizes damage categories, the deadline tool highlights timing questions, the case screener tests whether core claim signals may exist, and the statistics library supplies citywide context. None of them can determine fault, diagnose an injury, identify every exception, or replace review of the underlying records.
A useful workflow keeps the original documents beside the tool output. Save the incident date, report number, photographs, first treatment record, insurance correspondence, missed-work support, and any public-entity or employer information. Then compare the output with the source-backed guide that matches the issue before sharing private facts through intake.
Settlement planningOrganize documented bills, wage loss, daily impact, and disputed assumptions.California timing guideReview the general rule, common exceptions, and public-entity warning.Case signal screenerCheck injury, fault, causation, damages, timing, and evidence signals.City crash contextRead local estimates with methodology and source limitations.Evidence checklistBuild a preservation list before records or video become harder to obtain.Medical record guidanceConnect first care, referrals, restrictions, bills, and symptom changes.Verified profilesCompare independent attorney profiles and official license links.Secure case-routing intakeRequest review after organizing the facts you are ready to share.
Start with the question, not the highest number
If the immediate issue is a filing date, begin with the deadline guide. If the issue is whether treatment, fault, and damages form a coherent claim, use the case screener. Value estimates should come later, after the medical chronology and available coverage are organized.
Keep estimates separate from evidence
A generated range does not prove medical necessity, lost income, future care, causation, or liability. Mark each input as documented, estimated, disputed, or still missing so a later reviewer can see where the number came from and which records still need to be requested.
Escalate exceptions instead of guessing
Government entities, minors, delayed discovery, workers compensation, product defects, commercial vehicles, and cross-state facts can change the analysis. Use the relevant practice or resource page to identify the right questions, then ask an independent attorney to confirm what applies to the actual matter.
Protect private information
Do not place medical record numbers, Social Security numbers, account credentials, or complete insurance identifiers into a public or embedded tool. The public calculators are for planning. Use the secure intake route only when you choose to request case routing, and remember that submission alone does not create representation.
Keep a reproducible worksheet
Record the date used, each input, its source document, the selected claim type, and the tool output. If a bill, wage figure, or incident date changes, update the worksheet instead of editing the conclusion alone. A reproducible trail lets a later reviewer understand both the estimate and its limitations.