Sentences with phrase «dollar value of the damages»

The jury will then determine the dollar value of the damages the accident victim sustained, and they will reduce that figure by the accident victim's own percentage of fault.

Not exact matches

This wiped out earlier gains by the kiwi, although as further reports come in that suggests there is little damage, the value of the New Zealand dollar is beginning to rise once again.

Rather, the current economic downturn is likely to focus its damage on asset prices - the U.S. dollar, home values, low and mid-quality debt, and equity prices (largely through the combination of narrowing profit margins and lower valuations).

SCC dollar values are sometimes characterized as representing the marginal damage of an additional tonne of carbon dioxide emitted.

By keeping wine and beer together three years longer than it should, the board has destroyed millions of dollars in shareholder value and done what nobody had ever done before and damaged the beer business.»

Estimates of the monetary value of the damages in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria reach as high as 95 billion dollars.

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have developed a method of manipulating the genes of an agricultural pest that has invaded much of the United States and caused millions of dollars in damage to high - value berry and other fruit crops.

The scientists developed a survey to put a dollar value on the natural resources damaged by the BP Deepwater spill by determining household willingness to pay for measures that would prevent similar damages should a spill of the same magnitude happen in the future.

If they disappear, more than a million additional people and billions of dollars in property value will be vulnerable to damage, says a paper published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

(g) A creditor may not contract for or receive a separate charge for insurance against loss of or damage to property or against liability for property damage or personal injuries unless the original amount financed exclusive of the charges for insurance is three hundred dollars ($ 300) or more and the value of the property is three hundred dollars ($ 300) or more.

A 3 % discount rate essentially means that any damage a thousand years out, no matter how catastrophic, is valued at essentially zero: A damage of one trillion dollars a thousand years out discounts to about 14 cents today.

This dollar figure also represents the value of damages avoided for a small emission reduction (i.e., the benefit of a CO2 reduction.»)

While it's hard to pin a dollar value on damages, economic models suggest climate change already costs hundreds of billions in damages globally during the 20th century through lost crops, rising seas and more extreme weather.

The social cost of carbon (SCC) for a given year is an estimate, in dollars, of the present discounted value of the damage caused by a 1 - metric ton increase in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere in that year; or equivalently, the benefits of reducing CO2 emissions by the same amount in that given year.

Utube argues that this confusion has destroyed the value of its trademark and overloaded its servers, causing thousands of dollars of damage a month.

Because people's opinions vary widely regarding the dollar value of such items, awards for general damages can be inconsistent from case to case, although they generally fall within a certain range.

Construction disputes are among the most complex, high - stakes commercial litigation matters, potentially involving millions of dollars in liability as well as damage to valued reputations and relationships.

Depending on the types of injuries suffered, and whether or not the injury is permanent or has permanently changed a person's life, the value of non-economic damages may be in the millions of dollars.

56 Section 430 (4) speaks to damage to other types of property, including property having a value less than five thousand dollars.

The value of damage was estimated at 1 million dollars.

So - called «general» or «non-economic» damages in civil claims where someone is killed are awarded based upon California Civil Jury Instruction 3921, which states that a jury must come up with a dollar figure value for the loss of, «love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, protection, affection, society, moral support.»

Non-economic damages: These are damages with no set dollar value, such as pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, loss of enjoyment of life, mental anguish, and loss of consortium (family relationship).

In more recent news, the family of Hernandez's slain friend filed a wrongful death charge earlier this month claiming damages that exceed the value of Hernandez's $ 1.25 million dollar home.

«Litigation funders usually require an opportunity to have a one - to - 10 ratio of cost to damages, so the claims tend to be high - value — usually multi-million dollars,» Armstrong explains.

In the most important case in decades to rule on the admissibility of medical bills to prove damages, Law v. Griffith, slip op., July 20, 2010, the Supreme Judicial Court held that bills for medical care were presumptively evidence of the value of that care and that a defendant may not rebut or impeach that evidence by proving that the care provider took pennies on the dollar, but that such bills could be impeached with evidence that most insurers pay pennies on the dollar for the same services.

This means the loss of vehicle value after the damage is repaired and it can run into the thousands of dollars.

This is different from your standard homeowners insurance deductible; typically it ranges from 3 to 5 percent of the policy value, but can also be a specific dollar amount you will need to pay if your home sustains hurricane damage.

Replacement Cost and Actual Cash Value: Replacement cost policies provides you with the dollar amount needed to replace a damaged item with one of similar kind and quality without deducting for depreciation (the decrease in value due to age, wear and tear, and other factValue: Replacement cost policies provides you with the dollar amount needed to replace a damaged item with one of similar kind and quality without deducting for depreciation (the decrease in value due to age, wear and tear, and other factvalue due to age, wear and tear, and other factors).

No matter how well prepared you might be, a disaster can strike at any time and cause thousands of dollars worth of damage to your most valued belongings.

(3) To the extent possible, the restitution order shall be prepared by the sentencing court, shall identify each victim and each loss to which it pertains, and shall be of a dollar amount that is sufficient to fully reimburse the victim or victims for every determined economic loss incurred as the result of the defendant's criminal conduct, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (A) Full or partial payment for the value of stolen or damaged property.

Replacement Cost and Actual Cash Value: Replacement cost policies provides you with the dollar amount needed to replace a damaged item with one of similar kind and quality without deducting for depreciation (the decrease in value due to age, wear and tear, and other factValue: Replacement cost policies provides you with the dollar amount needed to replace a damaged item with one of similar kind and quality without deducting for depreciation (the decrease in value due to age, wear and tear, and other factvalue due to age, wear and tear, and other factors).