[Avodah] How do we evaluate nezeq nowadays of a person?

[Marty Bluke via Avodah]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:
> 2. Nowadays we have more sophisticated methods of determining appropriate
> compensation, which have been worked out by the civil courts.  I think a
> beis din today, setting the limit on "ad sheyefayes" as described in CM 1,
> would say it's whatever he could have got in civil court had he sued there.

Are you saying that the din of the gemara no longer applies because we
have better ways of determining value? I looked in the Pischei Choshen
(which is a contemporary sefer on Choshen Mishpat) and he still quotes
what it says in the Shulchan Aruch as to how to determine the nezeq.