In Texas courts, a judge and/or jury decide how to assign damages for pain and suffering. This may include the severity of the victim’s pain, how long the pain persists, and how badly the accident has affected the victim’s life. The judge and/or jury will also take into consideration if the victim’s quality of life has changed drastically and if they remain able to lead a healthy, normal life. The victim may be owed economic or non-economic damages and the trier of fact will assign a monetary value to those damages.