Emotional injury | Fright, no physical damage |
Temporary Insignificant | Temporary lacerations, contusions, minor scars, rash; no delay in recovery |
Temporary Minor | Infections, misset fracture, fall in hospital; recovery delayed |
Temporary Major | Burns, surgical material left, drug side effect, brain damage; recovery delayed |
Permanent Minor | Loss of fingers, loss or damage to organs; includes non-disabling injuries |
Permanent Significant | Deafness, loss of limb, loss of eye, loss of one kidney or lung |
Permanent Major | Paraplegia, blindness, loss of two limbs, brain damage |
Permanent Grave | Quadriplegia, severe brain damage, lifelong care or fatal prognosis |
Death |
Female | 0,009 | 0,044 | −0,034 | 0,057 | 0,016 | 0,065 | 0,192 | 0,174 |
Young | 0,068 | 0,108 | ||||||
Adult | −0,023 | 0,086 | ||||||
Retired | −0,181 | 0,142 | ||||||
Age in years | −0,004 | 0,002 | −0,005 | 0,004 | ||||
Contributory negligence | −0,010 | 0,002 | −0,009 | 0,002 | −0,008 | 0,003 | −0,011 | 0,006 |
More injuries | 0,732 | 0,048 | 0,763 | 0,062 | 0,854 | 0,075 | 1,029 | 0,162 |
Emotional injury | 0,562 | 0,089 | 0,600 | 0,119 | 0,513 | 0,158 | 0,411 | 0,183 |
Temporary minor | 0,679 | 0,057 | 0,617 | 0,077 | 0,559 | 0,091 | 0,435 | 0,183 |
Temporary major | 1,675 | 0,106 | 1,653 | 0,122 | 1,599 | 0,131 | 1,765 | 0,241 |
Permanent minor | 0,946 | 0,089 | 0,934 | 0,115 | 0,993 | 0,136 | 0,843 | 0,300 |
Permanent serious | 2,248 | 0,129 | 2,169 | 0,143 | 1,986 | 0,154 | 2,281 | 0,372 |
Death | 1,001 | 0,226 | 1,192 | 0,306 | 1,123 | 0,342 | 1,263 | 0,731 |
First instance Regional Court | 2,122 | 0,106 | 2,406 | 0,169 | 2,694 | 0,225 | 2,640 | 0,222 |
Second instance Regional Court | 0,725 | 0,142 | 1,148 | 0,261 | 1,129 | 0,301 | 1,041 | 0,304 |
Second instance Province Court | 2,275 | 0,108 | 2,497 | 0,170 | 2,667 | 0,222 | 2,616 | 0,221 |
Case disputed in Eastern Germany | −0,052 | 0,074 | −0,104 | 0,093 | −0,066 | 0,118 | −0,069 | 0,121 |
Case disputed in Northern Germany | −0,029 | 0,059 | 0,048 | 0,078 | 0,080 | 0,091 | 0,093 | 0,092 |
Case disputed in Southern Germany | 0,025 | 0,053 | 0,114 | 0,068 | 0,101 | 0,079 | 0,098 | 0,081 |
Lawyer First instance District Court | 0,419 | 0,103 | 0,451 | 0,171 | 0,465 | 0,230 | 0,410 | 0,228 |
Time trend | 0,039 | 0,004 | 0,048 | 0,005 | 0,049 | 0,006 | 0,051 | 0,006 |
Female x injury-specific char. (8 interactions) | No | No | No | Yes | ||||
Age x injury-specific char. (8 interactions) | No | No | No | Yes | ||||
Observations | 2.082 | 1.181 | 833 | 833 | ||||
R2 | 0,626 | 0,628 | 0,636 | 0,640 |
Compensation in 2005 EUR (Thsd.) | 22,303 | 54,025 | 0,069 | 657,70 |
Log Compensation | 8,614 | 1,690 | 4,228 | 13,397 |
Female [D] | 0,419 | 0,493 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Age | 30,326 | 18,582 | 0,500 | 85,000 |
Child | 0,187 | 0,390 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Young [D] | 0,117 | 0,321 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Adult [D] | 0,649 | 0,478 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Retired [D] | 0,048 | 0,213 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Contributory negligence (in %) | 4,844 | 13,676 | 0,000 | 80,000 |
More injuries [D] | 0,580 | 0,494 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Emotional injury [D] | 0,065 | 0,247 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Temporary insignificant | 0,297 | 0,457 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Temporary minor [D] | 0,396 | 0,489 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Temporary major [D] | 0,088 | 0,283 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Permanent minor [D] | 0,097 | 0,296 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Permanent significant [D] | 0,042 | 0,201 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Permanent major | 0,001 | 0,030 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Permanent grave | 0,000 | 0,021 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Death [D] | 0,013 | 0,115 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
First instance District Court | 0,242 | 0,429 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
First instance Regional Court [D] | 0,389 | 0,488 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Second instance Regional Court [D] | 0,040 | 0,195 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Second instance Province Court [D] | 0,329 | 0,470 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Case disputed in Eastern Germany [D] | 0,100 | 0,300 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Case disputed in Northern Germany [D] | 0,180 | 0,384 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Case disputed in Southern Germany [D] | 0,320 | 0,467 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Case disputed in Western Germany | 0,406 | 0,491 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Lawyer | 0,831 | 0,375 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Sentence after year 2002 [D] | 0,146 | 0,353 | 0,000 | 1,000 |
Model | 1.200,33 | 63,6 | 18 | 66,69 | |
0,2 [0,3] | |||||
Female | 0,05 | 0,0 | 1 | 0,05 | |
Age in years | 3,82 | 0,2 | 1 | 3,82 | |
28,9 [45,5] | |||||
Contributory negligence | 9,40 | 0,5 | 1 | 9,40 | |
More injuries | 115,32 | 6,1 | 1 | 115,32 | |
Emotional injury | 7,93 | 0,4 | 1 | 7,93 | |
Temporary minor | 32,27 | 1,7 | 1 | 32,27 | |
Temporary major | 151,24 | 8,0 | 1 | 151,24 | |
Perminent minor | 55,20 | 2,9 | 1 | 55,20 | |
Perminent serious
| 161,13 | 8,5 | 1 | 161,13 | |
Death | 13,66 | 0,7 | 1 | 13,66 | |
11,4 [18,0] | |||||
First instance Regional Court | 100,46 | 5,3 | 1 | 100,46 | |
Second instance Regional Court | 11,02 | 0,6 | 1 | 11,02 | |
Second instance Province Court | 99,67 | 5,3 | 1 | 99,67 | |
Case disputed in Eastern Germany | 0,29 | 0,0 | 1 | 0,29 | |
Case disputed in Northern Germany | 0,61 | 0,0 | 1 | 0,61 | |
Case disputed in Southern Germany | 1,37 | 0,0 | 1 | 1,37 | |
Lawyer First instance District Court | 2,70 | 0,1 | 1 | 2,70 | |
Time trend | 62,29 | 3,3 | 1 | 62,29 | 3,3 [5,2] |
Overall mean (constant) | 371,39 | 19,7 | 1 | 371,89 | 19,7 [31,0] |
Residual | 688,39 | 36,4 | |||
Total | 1.888,72 | 100,0 | 100,0 |