Every personal injury case is different. Even within the same type of case—car accidents, for example—your case will generate different damages than another injury victim. In general, you should be able to recover compensation for both your economic damages and non-economic ones. The former involve all the financial impacts that your injury has had on you, while the latter include all the damages that are more difficult to put a value on. Emotional and mental distress, for example, is considered non-economic damage.