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Malpractice Compensation Malpractice compensation usually covers future and past medical costs. It can also compensate those who have lost their income and their inability to work. Non-economic damages are more difficult to calculate and include suffering or distress, as well as frustration and anger. They are typically determined using a severity factor. To prove the malpractice, a plaintiff has to prove that a doctor's responsibility was to be professional. The duty was violated which resulted in injury. Damages for Suffering and Pain The suffering and pain are among of the most difficult damages to quantify in medical malpractice cases because they can be very subjective. Unlike economic losses like hospital bills and lost wages, which can easily be calculated to the penn...