Compensatory Damages
Payment made for damages or injury to a person or property that has actually occurred and nothing more.It has to be legally proved that the damges have occurred.
Compensatory Damages: Reimburse the plaintiff for actual dollar value that the plaintiff has lost due to the injury (e.g. medical expenses, lost income, loss of future earning capacity, may also include pain and suffering, etc.).
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DAMAGES, COMPENSATORY - Amount of money adequate to compensate for any actual damages caused by the party against whom they awarded. Also awarded for things that are harder to measure, such as pain and suffering.
Compensatory Damages
An award of monetary damages intended to compensate a plaintiff for economic and non-economic losses sustained as a result of another's negligence, breach of contract or misfeasance.
COMPENSATORY DAMAGES A payment for actual damages.
COMPLAINT The original or initial pleading by which an action is commenced.
CONSIDERATION The inducement to a contract; the reason or material cause of the contract.
compensatory damages: reimbursement for actual loss or injury, as distinguished from exemplary or punitive damages ...
COMPENSATORY DAMAGES: Money awarded to reimburse actual costs, such as medical bills and lost wages. Also awarded for things that are harder to measure, such as pain and suffering.
Compensatory Damages - Damages awarded to compensate the nonbreaching or injured party.
Compensatory damages, also called actual damages, are paid to compensate the claimant for loss, injury, or harm suffered by (see requirement of causation) another's breach of duty.
Quantum/measure of damages ...
Compensatory Damages Damages awarded for actual loss, in order to place the plaintiff in a position that he or she would have been in had he or she not suffered the wrong complained of.
There are many different types or categories of damages that occasionally overlap, including: compensatory damages Damages that cover actual injury or economic loss.
"[A]ggravated damages are an award, or an augmentation of an award, of compensatory damages for non-pecuniary losses. They are designed to compensate the plaintiff, and they are measured by the plaintiff's suffering.
By compensatory damages is meant such as are given morely to recompense a party who has sustained a loss in consequence of the acts of the defendant, and where there are no circumstances to aggravate the act, ...
Money awarded to compensate for actual losses (also called "compensatory damages"). The amount awarded is based on the proven harm, loss, or injury suffered by the plaintiff.
Definition
in the civil law of Louisiana : damages recoverable for loss resulting from an obligor's delay in performing
Compensatory damages are recoverable in a case of failure to perform.
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When such a duty is breached, the injured party has the right to institute suit for compensatory damages. Certain torts, such as nuisance, may be suppressed by injunction.
Royalty (Reasonable Royalty): A hypothetical royalty fee used as ameasure of damages to compensate for the infringement of a patent. It is thestatutory minimum amount of recovery for compensatory damages for patentinfringement.
 See also: Damages, Law, Person, Award, Thing
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