Sentences with phrase «to reduce the award»

If an employee fails to mitigate, the court may reduce any award for damages that the employee would have otherwise been entitled to.

In practical terms, this means a plaintiff may be found 40 % comparatively negligent, but a jury can reduce the award by 50 % in weighing the equities.

The jury's decision to reduce the award in this context does not mean that a plaintiff is actually 50 % at fault.

It's not particularly useful but it does reduce award change fees at bit.

In addition, some airlines have sharply reduced award availability, especially in premium cabins.

The Court of Appeal reduced the award to $ 200,000.

- Reduced award mileage requirements can save you thousands of miles - Domestic companion tickets can save you hundreds or thousands on expensive fares.

The main reason behind the decline in reduced award seat availability is the improved global economy.

Under comparative negligence, the percentage of fault you are found responsible for will directly reduce your awarded settlement amount by that percentage.

As a result, I conclude that the accident caused the injury and that there is no basis to reduce the award on the basis of the prior shoulder injury.

But the court would reduce your award by 20 %.

Although trial judges do have discretion to reduce awards if more detailed substantiation is not provided, it will not happen — as here — where the lower court found credible the time summaries provided by counsel.

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The California 4th District Court of Appeal had previously reduced the award from $ 369 million to $ 82.6 million.

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In the class actions Jeffery v. London Life Insurance Co. and McKittrick v. Great - West Life Assurance Co., the appeal court reduced the award given by a trial judge to $ 220 million, from $ 390 million.

But how are people new to using SkyMiles supposed to know that an international award sale has actually just reduced the award price to what was recently the standard rate?

The WCA report also shows that — contrary to the Business Council's contention — the existing impairment guidelines in fact account for advances in medicine, and reduce awards as outcomes and functional capacity improve.

Travelers enrolled at the base level will receive five miles per dollar spent, while top levels will yield 11 miles per dollar, a change that can reduce award miles up to 51 % on a given trip.

The trial judge significantly reduced the award for pain and suffering from $ 6.5 million to the rough upper limit at the time, $ 327,000.

It is incredibly disappointing that politicians in Missouri are trying to reduce the awards victims of mesothelioma in can receive.

Where an employee has the opportunity to accept an alternative position to mitigate their losses and does not take that opportunity, a court in a wrongful dismissal claim may reduce any award made to that employee accordingly.

I would, with respect, give more weight to that principle than did the trial judge and would therefore reduce the award to Ms. Kish to $ 30,000.

However, the judge also reduced his awards for non-pecuniary damages, loss of earning capacity, loss of pension and deferred profit sharing by 50 % and the future cost of care by 10 % because of a failure to mitigate.

The panel vacated punitive damages as to one defendant and reduced the award against the other so that the ratio of compensatory damages to punitive damages was 1:1.

Mr. Justice Rogers assessed non-pecuniary damages at $ 100,000 but then reduced this award by 40 % to take into account the fact that the injury may have occurred even without the crash.

And just two days after writing that, the First Department does the same thing, reducing an award without any discussion of the injuries and rationale.

Court agreed and reduced award accordingly.

Reducing awards twice for the same past conduct is egregious unfairness to people who have already endured long years of unjust captivity.

But courts can reject such entries and will reduce your award if you can not detail the time expended on each disparate task.

Accordingly, I would allow Wal - Mart's appeal on punitive damages and reduce the award from $ 1,000,000 to $ 100,000.

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In Bermingham v. Atlantic Concrete Cutting (1st Dept. 2018), after the the trial judge reduced the award to $ 150,000 ($ 50,000 past, $ 100,000 future), the appellate court determined that reasonable compensation for plaintiff's pain and suffering is $ 200,000 ($ 100,000 past, $ 100,000 future).

The trial court reduced the award to $ 125,000 under applicable damages caps.

The BC Court of Appeal agreed and reduced the award by almost $ 45,000.

In other words, if a dismissed employee is entitled to 10 months reasonable notice and 18 weeks» notice and severance pursuant to the ESA, the court will award the dismissed employee damages representing 10 months» notice and, presuming the ESA entitlement has been paid, will reduce the award of damages for the money already paid to the employee during the notice period.

In University of British Columbia v. Kelly, 2015 BCSC 1731, the Supreme Court upheld the Tribunal's decision and the wage loss damages but reduced the award for injury to dignity.

«In many cases it is grossly disproportionate, it fetters judicial discretion, and creates perverse incentives — not only for defendants to plead guilty but for sentencers to reduce awards of compensation and prosecution costs.

As schools choose to enter pupils for fewer subjects, market forces mean boards may in the future continue to reduce the awards they offer, she said.