You aren’t wrong, but future wages are mostly hypothetical and indemnification is usually for incurred pain and suffering. For example, say he typically spends

You aren’t wrong, but future wages are mostly hypothetical and indemnification is usually for incurred pain and suffering. For example, say he typically spends 5 years on average at every job he has ever had and he was on year 4 at this job. History says he was going to move on soon. Or maybe he is 63 and they compute retirement at 65. Another aspect, I typically see injury lawsuits for things like cervical injuries with fusions settle for like $150k so in that regard, $450k seems like he made out pretty well. Fatalities depend on age, but even then we are only talking about a few million for a young person.