Sentences with phrase «award for breach of contract»

Successful representation of the designer / manufacturer of high tech, high pressure hydraulic hoses and fittings in a week - long arbitration hearing before a three - judge AAA tribunal achieving a multi-million dollar award for breach of contract against a global competitor.

Thus Hadley v. Baxendale is the leading case on limiting awards for breach of contract — it's now on its way to becoming the leading case for starting awards, but that's another sad and frustrating story — when the far better case, Horne v. Midland Railway Company (1873), L.R. 8 C.P. 131 (Ex.

Since damages can be awarded for breaches of contract, a breach has to be an «unlawful» act, i.e., an act that attracts a sanction, the proposed rule would be impossibly wide: we recognize the unlawful element when we refer to wrongful dismissals.

English law does not allow punitive damages (called «exemplary damages» under English law) to be awarded for breach of contract, but does permit the award of exemplary damages for some tortious claims.

Considering the case law, the Court concluded that negotiating damages can be awarded for breach of contract where the loss suffered by the claimant is appropriately measured by reference to the economic value of the right which has been breached, considered as an asset.

Not exact matches

An arbitration panel awarded him $ 1.3 million for breach of contract.

• Boyne USA, Inc. v. Spanish Peaks Development, LLC & Lone Mountain Holdings, LLC, Montana Fifth Judicial District Court (2010): $ 600,000 jury verdict and additional award of punitive damages for breach of contract, deceit, abuse of process and other claims.

The drafts I propose here are for transactional disputes, and specifically for AODR that generates arbitral awards in the millions of claims for debt and breach of contract.

The Assessed Group [Group 2] may be satisfied with the quantum of the award made by the OLRB and the outcome that the Defendants are liable to pay that award as the damages for their negligence, conspiracy, inducing breach of contract, or oppression remedy claim.»

As Canadian Lawyer reported in 2015, an Ontario Superior Court judge awarded damages against Cassels Brock for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and professional negligence.

Therefore, punitive damages are «recoverable for a tort committed in connection with, but independently of, the breach of contract, where the essentials of the award of such damages are otherwise present, the allowance of such damages being for the tort and not for the breach of contract.»

Further, the EAT considered that claims under the WTR 1998 were analogous to claims of breach of contract, and there was no entitlement under English law to award damages for injury to feelings.

A legal action for breach of contract is a civil action, and any remedies awarded are designed to place the injured party in the position that party would have been in but for the breach.

Obtained multiple awards for a wholesale food company in several American Arbitration Association arbitrations in Oklahoma, Arizona and Florida relating to breach of contracts by grocery store owners.

The arbitrator granted summary disposition in favor of the defendants, finding that: (1) CHSI was not a proper respondent to the action and that Weirton failed to state claims against CHSI; (2) all of Weirton's claims, except for the breach - of - contract claim against Quorum, were barred by res judicata or collateral estoppel; (3) Weirton's breach - of - contract claim against Quorum was time - barred under the applicable Tennessee statute of limitations; (4) Weirton's tort claims were alternatively barred by the gist - of - the - action doctrine; and (5) Weirton's unjust enrichment claim was barred because of the parties» contracts (the «Second Award»).

In ET v Rocky Mountain Play Therapy Institute Inc, 2016 ABQB 299 (CanLII), the claimant was subject to an enhanced costs award against him of $ 18,000 for making «serious unfounded allegations» (at para 9) against the respondents and their counsel in an interlocutory proceeding related to his claim for breach of contract, defamation and negligence.

The trial judge found no bad faith on the part of the insurer, but awarded Ms. Fidler aggravated damages of $ 20,000 for mental distress resulting from Sun Life's breach of the group disability contract.

The Supreme Court of Canada stated in Honda Canada Inc. v. Keays.1 that an award of moral damages is based on the principle, articulated in Hadley v. Baxendale, 2 that damages are recoverable for a contractual breach if the damages are «such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally... from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties».

-- Instructed by Clifford Chance (as junior to Joe Smouha QC) to act for the respondent to an application under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 challenging an LCIA award concerning a # 480 million claim for breach of contract — Instructed by Slaughter and May (as junior to David Streatfeild James QC) in an ICC arbitration involving a claim against a German conglomerate in the industrial sector.

-- Instructed by Clifford Chance (as junior to Joe Smouha QC) to act for the respondent to an application under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 challenging an LCIA award concerning a # 480 million claim for breach of contract

At the time of the contract's non-renewal the assessed value of the business was $ 87,000 and that was what the Supreme Court of Canada awarded Mr. Bhasin as damages for Can - Am's breach.

The Court of Appeal awarded bonus payments to Mr. Paquette, and in so doing confirmed that the basic principle in awarding damages for wrongful dismissal is that «the employee is entitled to compensation for all losses arising from the employer's breach of contract in failing to give proper notice.»

The basic principle in awarding damages for wrongful dismissal is that the terminated employee is entitled to compensation for all losses arising from the employer's breach of contract in failing to give proper notice.

In aircraft manufacturer Airbus Americas» suit demanding indemnification for defendant Metron's alleged breaches of contract related to Airbus» acquisition of Metron Holdings in 2011, a Fairfax Circuit Court awards Airbus $ 9.4 million in damages.

Branco v. American Home Assurance Co. et al. 2013 SKQB 98 Damage Awards — Exemplary or punitive damages — Breach of contract Branco, at age 58, developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy in his right foot after two injuries while working as a welder for the Kumtor Operating Co. in Kyrgyzstan.

The matter went to arbitration and the arbitrator awarded damages of $ 4.1 million against Georgia for breach of contract.

Successful representation of the service / maintenance contractor for a fleet of railroad locomotives in a four - week AAA arbitration hearing before a three - judge AAA tribunal achieving a $ 70 million award against a major railroad for breach of a long - term maintenance contract.

Alternatively you can bring a claim for breach of contract in the civil courts which can award damages going back five years in Scotland or six in England and Wales.

That broad common law principle was subject to an anomalous, that was, unprincipled, exception regarding claims for interest losses by way of damages for breach of a contract to pay a debt: in London, Chatham and Dover Railway Co v South Eastern Railway Co [1893] AC 429 it was decided that at common law a court had no power to award interest by way of damages for the late payment of a debt.

The court has a common law jurisdiction to award interest, simple and compound, as damages on claims for non-payment of debts as well as on other claims for breach of contract and in tort.

An Ontario Superior Court judge has awarded damages against law firm Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP in the amount of $ 45 million for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and professional negligence.

Therefore, the court had a common law jurisdiction to award interest, simple and compound, as damages on claims for non-payment of debts as well as on other claims for breach of contract and in tort.

Both parties moved for summary judgment, where the respondent asked the court to award damages for breach of contract, and the appellant asked the court to dismiss the action.

In 2011, the plaintiff sued Ruggieri Engineering for breach of contract, and was awarded $ 337,130 in damages.

The court stated that «the purpose of awarding damages for breach of contract is neither to penalize the defendant nor merely to return to the plaintiff that which he has expended in reliance on the contract.

Wyoming's Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's award for the commission, saying the owners breached the implied duty of good faith inherent in every contract.