On 14 October, the Supreme Court of Iceland delivered its judgment in case No. 4/2026, which matters a great deal to young people in education. A woman who was injured in a traffic accident in 2019, midway through her training as a dental technician, had received compensation for permanent disability calculated on the minimum income set by the Icelandic Tort Damages Act. A majority of the Supreme Court held that the calculation should be based on her probable future earnings as a dental technician and ordered the insurance company to pay her the difference. The Court noted that the statutory minimum had increasingly drifted away from the actual earnings of wage earners. In her case it amounted to ISK 3,422,500 but would have been ISK 6,691,000 had it kept pace with general wage developments. Two of the five judges dissented. Our advice: if you were injured while studying, do not accept a settlement based on the minimum income without a reservation. The woman made a reservation, and it was decisive. Have your settlement assessed by ESJA Legal at esl.is.