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Compensatory Damages
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Solum Space Law Blog
Understanding Compensatory Damages in California Personal-Injury Cases
The following article is provided by Solum Space Law, APC for general information only and should not be taken as legal advice. Every case is unique—if you have questions about…
Law Times News
Largest compensatory damages awarded in Canadian law
Find out the biggest compensatory damages awarded by Canadian courts. Learn historic settlements, including the factors that influenced awards
Café con Labor
Los tribunales luchan con la definición de “daños accionables” a partir del caso Muldrow
By Melanie Leitman, Paul Crucet
View English Version Here. En un post anterior de nuestro Café con Labor se discutió la recalibración que realizó la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos de lo que se…
Blaneys Appeals
COURT OF APPEAL SUMMARIES (October 7 – October 11)
Jump To: Table of Contents | Civil Decisions | Short Civil Decisions Good evening. Please find below our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario…
TortsProf Blog
Wells on Compensatory Damages and Dignitary Harm in the Restatement of Constitutional Torts
Mike Wells has posted to SSRN Compensatory Damages and Dignitary Harm in the Upcoming Restatement of Constitutional Torts. The abstract provides:A new Restatement of Constitutional Torts, just getting underway, and the…
Litigation Finance Journal
NSW Supreme Court Rules Funder’s Commission is Not Recoverable as Damages
By John Freund
At the core of any litigation funding arrangement is the principle that if the funded party reaches a successful outcome, then the funder will receive a return on their investment…
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
NLRB Makes Employers Liable For Damages For Direct and Foreseeable Harms
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled that employers are liable for compensatory damages in unfair labor practices case. This means employers are now liable for direct and foreseeable…
Guideposts
Federal District Court Reduces Punitive Damages To Amount Of Compensatory Damages—But That’s Still Not Enough
Usually, when a defendant gets a punitive award reduced to the same amount as the compensatory damages, it considers that a victory. But while such a reduction recently saved Johnson…
Guideposts
Updates On Verdicts About Which We Reported In 2017
We reported on a bunch of eye-popping punitive awards in 2017. There have been further developments in a number of those cases. Though we may provide more comprehensive discussions of…
Litigators at Work
Court Reduces Jury Award of $6.45 Million to $100,000.
On May 16, 2017, we reported that a jury in Davis v. Packer Engineering, Inc., No. 1:11-cv-07923, awarded plaintiffs Danya Davis and Bernessa Wilson each $3 million in punitive damages…