Non Pecuniary Losses For Personal Injuries

Loss Of Amenities

The Plaintiff may recover damages for the injury itself and any consequent inability to enjoy life. The personal injury lawyer will try to calculate these damages on an objective basis and do not take into account the Plaintiff’s inability to appreciate the disability. A personal injury lawyer will help the unconscious plaintiffs recover for loss of amenity as well.


Loss of amenities may include the loss of capacity to enjoy sport or other pastimes which the Plaintiff engaged in before the injury. Impairment of one of the five senses, inability to play with one’s children, diminution of marriage prospects, impairment of sexual life and destroyed holidays may also be compensated under this heading.

Pain And Suffering

The personal injury lawyer will plead to the court to award damages for any pain and suffering which can be attributed to the injury itself and to any consequential surgical operations. The personal injury lawyer will plead in such a way that the award will cover past and any future pain. Compensation neurosis may also be compensated. This is a medically recognized condition caused by awaiting the outcome of litigation.


An unconscious Plaintiff cannot recover damages for pain and suffering with due fact that they are not suffering any pain. As the saying goes, “It is cheaper to kill than to maim.” A conscious Plaintiff may recover for any mental suffering with the help of a personal injury lawyer caused by the knowledge that life has been cut short or that his ability to enjoy life has been diminished by physical handicap.

Damages for nervous shock are awarded as damages for pecuniary loss and as damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenity.