Sentences with phrase «type of damages plaintiffs»

Not exact matches

In order to recover damages in this type of case, the plaintiff must show physical manifestations of distress or some other non-psychological damage (such as loss of wages).

Under the facts of this case, the Indiana Supreme Court held that the plaintiff's notice was adequate because the Indiana Tort Claims Act does not reference specifying any particular type of damages; only that a claim may be brought.

Before examining damages based on the type of plaintiff, there are a few other interesting things to note about damages awards generally.

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

Generally speaking, a plaintiff in a personal injury lawsuit can be entitled to two different types of compensatory damages:

Generally, there are two types of damages available to a plaintiff in a medical malpractice case: compensatory damages and punitive damages.

In Honda Justice Bastarache wrote at paragraph 69 that certain types of compensatory damages designed to reimburse the plaintiff (such as an award of moral damages) already carry an element of deterrence.

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

He or she also announces the type and amount of damages that the defendant must pay if the verdict is in favor of the plaintiff.

He or she also discusses the different types of damages to be awarded to the plaintiff (compensatory and punitive).

Wrongful death plaintiffs can be entitled to the following types of damages:

Finally, punitive damages are warranted in some personal injury cases, and, rather than being meant to make the plaintiff whole again, punitive damages are meant to punish the defendant for particularly willful or negligent behavior, deterring this type of behavior in the future.

So we are not telling you, Mr. or Mrs. attorney, this is exactly how this case is going to turn out, and you certainly have the benefit of your experience, but no human can recall or read through the last thousand cases in the District of Delaware of this type and recall how many times the plaintiff was ruled for, how many times the defendant was ruled for, and then be able to mentally slice down and look at just end of cases, which is a subset of patent cases, or to look at a certain kind of damages or a certain timeframe.

The Plaintiff advanced an ICBC claim, seeking damages for many types of claims, including pain and suffering, future care, past and future loss of housekeeping capacity, as well an in - trust claim on behalf of her son, who took over the role from his mother for caring for his father, as well as doing housekeeping chores that the Plaintiff had performed before the accident.

In Suthakar v. Humble, the Plaintiff was injured in a motor vehicle accident, and consequently commenced legal proceedings, seeking damages for pain and suffering and various other types of damages, including diminished earning capacity.

Special damages are a type of monetary award meant to help the plaintiff recover from the calculable costs of his or her auto accident.

Quite often, injured people without a plaintiff ICBC injury lawyer will not get fair value for their injury claim, for the simple fact that they do not know the different types of damages that can be claimed for, and to what extent.

In Ostrikoff v. Oliveira, the Plaintiff was involved in a motor vehicle accident, and brought an ICBC claim for many types of damages, such as non-pecuniary damages, past loss of earning capacity, and future diminished earning capacity.

In Lo v. Matsumoto, the Plaintiff was injured in a motor vehicle accident, and brought an ICBC claim for damages for pain and suffering, as well as various other types of damages, such as the cost of future care.

Information reported includes the type of case, types of plaintiffs and defendants, trial winners, amount of total damages awarded, amount of punitive damages awarded, and case processing time.

The Plaintiff commenced legal proceedings, seeking compensation for numerous types of damages, all of which were settled with the exception of the cost of future care.

In Crevier v. Thompson, the Plaintiff was injured in a motor vehicle accident, and commenced an ICBC claim for many types of damages, including pain and suffering, and diminished earning capacity.

Among the types of damages that a plaintiff may recover are:

The Court's reduction of the punitive damages award from $ 100,000 to $ 15,000 could be taken, without too much reading between the lines, as some indication that some members of the court were somewhat skeptical --(I'm bowing to the spelling checker and not typing «sceptical», regardless of the homononym) of the merits of the claim that plaintiff was, in fact, misled.

Employees who suffer workplace discrimination in violation of the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Act are entitled to recover four types of damages: front pay (the amount by which someone's future earnings are reduced by discrimination), back pay (the plaintiff's lost income from the time of the discrimination up to a jury verdict), emotional distress damages, and attorney's fees.

The Act prohibits «deception, fraud, misrepresentation, or the knowing concealment, suppression, or omission of any material fact with intent that others rely upon [it], in connection with the sale or advertisement of... real estate,... whether or not any person has in fact been misled, deceived or damaged thereby...» The court noted that when the alleged wrong is an omission or failure to disclose, the plaintiff must show knowledge on the part of the defendant, as intent is an element of that type of fraud.