Placing the value on bodily injury claims is inherently speculative.
To remove some of the guess work from ascertaining a proper value for general damages, some insurance companies utilize a comprehensive software program called Colossus. The Colossus software attempts to recreate, electronically, the “round-tabling” that often occurs with specific claims. One court has described the “round-tabling” process as a process in which the insurer’s most skilled and experienced casualty claims...