Sentences with phrase «seek economic damages»

For example, while you can seek economic damages from the other driver's liability policy (assuming that the other driver caused the accident), which includes damages for your medical bills, you can not seek damages for non-economic losses.

In addition to seeking economic damages for things like lost wages, medical bills, and transportation costs, we can also seek non-economic damages.

Defended a domestic automobile manufacturer in a national class action seeking economic damages due to an alleged defect in its vehicles.

Not exact matches

Without a system for identifying regulations damaging to small business and addressing them in a targeted way, the executive order is meaningless, says Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that seeks nonpartisan solutions to national challenges.

«We write to direct your urgent attention to the destructive role of these companies in the current crisis in Puerto Rico, in which massive hurricane damage and economic loss is being exploited by private equity funds seeking huge profits from human suffering,» says the letter, which was also signed by groups including New York Communities for Change and the Center for Popular Democracy.

The suit seeks more than $ 50,000 in general damages and more than $ 50,000 in economic damages as well as an unspecified amount for medical and funeral expenses, emotional distress and other damages.

The accord seeks to limit rising temperatures that have been linked to increasing economic damage from decertification, extinctions of animals and plants, heat waves, floods and rising sea levels.

The eyes of Texas were upon the state's high court when it reaffirmed an 1891 ruling that because pets are personal property, a bereaved owner of a negligently killed dog can seek only economic damages, not emotional damages.

The hiring data for August had yet to account for the damage from Hurricane Harvey, whose economic impact will be felt in coming months as more people seek unemployment benefits and industrial production will likely reflect the loss of Texas refineries and factories.

In Denver personal injury claims, plaintiffs are allowed to seek compensation for all types of damages suffered, including both economic and noneconomic harm.

Once liability is established, then accident victims can seek damages — either economic or non-economic.

There are a number of different types of damages that plaintiffs in injury cases may seek, including economic damages.

You are entitled to seek compensation for economic damages including funeral costs, or even noneconomic damages like the loss of the deceased's companionship or comfort.

Additionally, victims may seek compensation for damages that are not economic in nature, such as the physical pain and the psychological stress that can result from an act of medical malpractice.

In this case, [the company's] seeking punitive damages was an economic threat.

In California, you can generally seek both economic and non-economic damages through a defective airbag injury lawsuit.

We have handled a variety of construction related lawsuits, including construction defect claims, breach of contract claims, indemnity disputes, additional insured issues, job site accidents and other tort claims seeking damages for personal injuries, wrongful death, property damage, economic loss and project delays.

First, you can seek to recover economic damages.

In the right case, with a proper amount of evidence to prove the need for punitive damages, such a means makes sense, but most injured people are better off seeking only «economic» or «non-economic» damages rather than punitive damages.

Insurance adjusters often dispute the amount of economic damages sought by a car accident victim.

As with any medical malpractice case, you should seek compensation for economic losses and non-economic losses as legitimate elements of the damages for which you look to the negligent physician for compensation.

Court held that insurer did not owe a duty to defend, under a commercial general liability policy, where third - party action sought incidental emotional distress damages caused by the insured's noncovered economic or business torts.

On April 21, General Motors» lawyers filed a motion in U.S. bankruptcy court seeking to prevent lawsuits for economic damages related to the ignition switch recall.

A defendant faced with a large demand for economic damages may argue that you did not need all the treatment you received or that you waited so long to seek treatment that your injuries were worse than they would have been had you been treated right away.

A Fostoria medical malpractice lawyer will tirelessly seek compensation for both economic and non-economic damages suffered by injured patients.

Risk Factor # 3: During times of economic down turn, the frequency of EPL claims rises and employees are seeking higher damage awards.