Sentences with phrase «aggravated damages compensate»

Aggravated damages compensate a claimant for intangible injuries, such as distress and humiliation, which are caused by a defendant's conduct.

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Aggravated damages are intended to compensate for employer bad faith conduct in the course of termination, where that conduct causes the terminated employee to suffer damages, usually in the form of mental distress.

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The employee then sued his former employer and claimed that he was the victim of defamation and should be compensated for all related losses, including damages in defamation; punitive, exemplary and aggravated damages; and damages for intentional infliction of mental suffering.

Depending on the particular facts and on the forum, the monetary awards compensate the victim for: past and future wage loss; general damages (compensation for pain and suffering); specific losses, such as intentional infliction of mental suffering or assault; aggravated damages (in the context of employment law, often relating to the manner in which the employer dismissed the employee); and punitive damages (a monetary award intended to punish the wrong - doer rather than to compensate the victim).

With intentional torts, like sexual assault and battery, the purpose of aggravated damages is to compensate a plaintiff for the humiliating, oppressive, and malicious aspects of a defendant's conduct.

Tort claims are meant to compensate you for your pain and suffering (general damages), past and future loss of income, loss of competitive advantage in the workplace, future care costs not covered by accident benefits, loss of enjoyment of life, special damages like your out - of - pocket expenses, aggravated damages, punitive damages, and any other damages which you sustained as a result of your car accident.

Perhaps tort victims should addi - tionally be compensated through «aggravated damages» for the dignity harm they have personally endured, if, for some reason, their compensatory damages did not properly en - compass those harms.

The court took the view, as in Goswell, that while damages for psychological injury did partly compensate the appellant, for the after - effects of her ordeal, they did not fully compensate her for humiliation she had suffered at the time of the incident — an important factor for counsel to consider when pleading both aggravated damages and psychological injury.

``... unable to accept that the mere fact that the basic award includes an element to compensate for psychiatric harm necessarily precludes an award of aggravated damages.