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Noneconomic damages are often valued through per diem requests to juries. A per diem request assigns a monetary value to a small unit of time (e.g., $15 per hour, $240 per day) and then multiplies that value by the number of units (e.g., hours, days, weeks, months) in which injury is or will be sustained to yield a figure for pain and suffering. Laughery and colleagues (2001) studied per diem requests to compensate a victim for pain and suffering for the remainder of the victim’s life due to a consumer product accident…