(1st Cir.1978); see also Coventry Sewage As-socs., 71 F.3d at 5 (cautioning that “ ‘the fact that the complaint discloses the existence of a valid defense to the claim’ ” does not affect the amount-in-controversy analysis) (quoting St. Paul Mercury Indem. Co. v. Red Cab Co., 303 U.S. 283, 290, 58 S.Ct. 586, 82 L.Ed. 845 (1938)). One of Evans’s potential theories of recovery at the time she filed suit was that the defendants caused her to contract Hepatitis A. According to the complaint, the disease can produce up to six months’ worth of headaches, nausea, and abdominal pain, as well as permanent damage to the liver. The defendants argue that damages for these symptoms alone would more likely than not exceed $75,000. See Duchesne v. Am. Airlines, Inc., 758 F.2d 27, 28-30 (1st Cir.1985) (<HOLDING>). Evans also seeks compensation for the “fear
holding that jury should decide whether plaintiffs testimony proved reasonable and necessary medical expenses holding that medical expenses must be proven to be both reasonable and necessary holding that an award for medical expenses is proper when the expenses have been incurred but not paid holding that debtors have the burden of proving that other necessary expenses on form b22c are actual reasonable and necessary expenses and that these expenses should be considered in light of schedule j and other relevant evidence holding that ten months of dizziness and headaches supported claim in excess of 10000 in 1984 dollars despite negligible medical expenses