I discussed special damages or the “hard costs” in my last post. Today I am going to elaborate on GENERAL DAMAGES. General Damages are more esoteric than Special Damages. These are not hard and fast numbers.This is the amount of money you can recover for the inconvenience to your normal life, like the suffering, emotional strain, physical painand loss of enjoyment of life caused by the accident and your injuries. These would be like your inability to function normally in your social life, family life and in your normal hobbies and activities that you did before the accident.The amount of general damages one can recover really depends on the particular facts of their case. For instance, someone who breaks their hand in an accident will suffer more general damages is that person’s favorite hobby is playing the piano than if his or her favorite hobby is watching movies.