Sentences with phrase «monetary award meant»
Special damages are a type of monetary award meant to help the plaintiff recover from the calculable costs of his or her auto accident.
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Bonus: they're awarding monetary donations to nonprofits with the highest number of individual donors, so we really mean it when we say that any donation counts!
(Sec. 242) Requires the Secretary to establish a program to make monetary awards to encourage the owners and operators of new and existing electric energy generation facilities or thermal energy production facilities using fossil or nuclear fuel to use innovative means of recovering thermal energy that is a potentially useful byproduct of electric power generation or other processes to: (1) generate additional electric energy; or (2) make sales of thermal energy not used for electric generation, in the form of steam, hot water, chilled water, or desiccant regeneration, or for other commercially valid purposes.
Most states follow the theory of «comparative negligence,» which means that if the injured party is determined to have been responsible for a certain percentage of the harm, that party's recovery (the monetary «damages» awarded or reached by settlement) will be reduced by that same percentage.
This means that our class action attorneys do not receive payment until a settlement or monetary award is paid.
Punitive damages are monetary awards that can best be thought of as a punishment meant to deter others from behaving in the same way as the guilty party.
Since the AHRA is not meant to punish, large monetary awards are not usually made.
If he or she thinks you have a valid case, the attorney fee will probably be a contingency amount, which means that if you win your case, the attorney will take a predetermined amount or percentage of the monetary award.
[50] First, I take the «amount involved» to mean the quantum of monetary damages awarded to the plaintiff as the result of a successful prosecution of her lawsuit.