you may be entitled to one or more of the following types of damages: Economic damages include medical expenses (both current and future, including rehabilitative therapies and prescription drugs), lost wages, and lost future earnings. Economic damages all have a specific dollar amount attached to them, so are relatively easy to calculate. Non-economic damages are those damages that are less easy to quantify and include pain and suffering. Pain can include actual physical pain that affects your ability to function on a daily basis as well as emotional pain and trauma resulting from the accident. Punitive damages are rare but can be awarded to a plaintiff when the defendant acted deliberately, maliciously, or in a particularly egregious manner.