What Are Damages?
Damages are compensation, usually in monetary form, awarded in a civil court case for an injury or loss caused by another person’s negligence.
What Are Damages?
According to the American Bar Association (ABA), damages are tangible and non-tangible losses that can be quantified and documented, providing direct financial assistance to an injured party. Examples of damages can include medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and property damage.
Damages are important in restoring the injured party to the position they would have been in had the wrongdoing not occurred. This concept is fundamental in both tort and contract law, where it addresses breaches of duty or contract, provides a financial measure of reparation, and is even more important in personal injury cases where the injured party receives compensatory damages for medical bills and pain and suffering.
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VA Trooper Killed in Crash While Responding to Call
VA Trooper dies in tragic accident; collides with oncoming car and runs off the road striking a pole
Virginia Veteran and State Trooper Killed in Crash
A Virginia State Trooper responding to a call Friday night in King George County, Virginia, collided with a Hyundai Elantra where his car ran off the road and struck a light pole resulting in his death. He was traveling westbound on Route 3/Kings Highway when he entered the intersection of Route 3 and Madison Drive and collided with the eastbound vehicle. The driver and a passenger in the Hyundai were taken to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg with minor injuries. The trooper was also an Iraq war veteran. The police are continuing their investigation.
Ohio Accident Claims Two Lives
Two women died and three men were injured when their car flipped on I-76 near Akron, […]
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Car Accident Round-Up – PA Accident Claims Life of Actor
Actor Ryan Dunn killed in car accident in West Goshen Township, PA
Pennsylvania Accident Leaves Actor Dead
A single car crash around 3am on Monday morning at the intersection of Route 322 and New Street in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania, claimed the lives of actor Ryan Dunn and his passenger. Both of them died of injuries sustained in the accident. While an investigation is ongoing, police indicated that Dunn was most likely speeding in his 2007 Porsche 911 GT3. The car, which was engulfed in flames after running off the road and ending up in the woods, was destroyed.
Drunk Driver in NC Leaves Two Motorcyclists Dead
A pickup driver charged with driving while impaired crossed the center line when traveling north on N.C. Highway 82 early Sunday morning, and struck a southbound motorcycle carrying a driver and passenger leaving both of them dead at the scene. […]
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PA Driver Tries to Run Down Pedestrians
No one injured after man drives on sidewalk targeting pedestrians
Virginia Accident Leaves One Dead
A Sunday morning crash on I-81 near Abingdon, Virginia has left a 23-year-old college student dead. The driver of the 2005 Jeep Wrangler left the northbound lanes of the highway, struck several trees then overturned. The deceased was the only person involved in the single-vehicle accident.
Fleeing Man Causes Fatal Accident in West Virginia
Deputies in Loudon County, Virginia attempted to pull over a speeding driver before he fled the scene and raced across the state line into West Virginia causing a multi-car accident leaving one person dead and five others injured, including the fleeing driver. The DC man was driving a stolen Toyota 4Runner on Wednesday morning around 3am when he crossed into oncoming traffic and sideswiped a car carrying three people, then careened sideways and struck a van head-on that was carrying two. […]
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NY Man Charged with Vehicular Assault, DWI in Motorcycle Crash
Drunk driver hit motorcyclist, who suffered serious leg injury
Man Charged with Vehicular Assault, DWI in Motorcycle Crash
A Montour Falls, NY man was charged with vehicular assault when he hit and injured a motorcyclist while driving drunk. The accident occurred Friday after the drunk driver turned into the path of a motorcycle at College Avenue and Turner Park in Montour Falls. The motorcyclist sustained a serious leg injury and was airlifted to Robert Sayre Hospital. In addition to the first-degree vehicular assault charge, the driver was also charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to yield the right of way and failure to keep right.
Drug-Impaired Driver Charged in Accident
A New York woman was charged with driving while impaired by drugs, leaving the scene of a property damage accident and various other traffic violations after crashing her car into several road signs on Thursday. […]
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$322 Million Awarded To Man Over Asbestos Exposure
Negligent companies were aware of the cancer-causing nature of their asbestos product
In what is believed to be the largest award in a single plaintiff’s asbestos case, a jury has awarded $322 million to a 48-year-old man who is suffering from asbestosis and has to be on oxygen 24 hours a day.
The jury awarded $300 million in punitive damages and $22 million in actual damages and found the defendants were liable for defectively designing their product and failing to provide an adequate warning to workers.
The lawsuit, filed against Chevron Phillips Chemical Company and Union Carbide Corp., states the man worked in the oil field from the age of 16 in 1979 to the mid-1980s and mixed an asbestos drilling additive. It was during this time, the lawsuit claims, he inhaled the harmful substance.
The drilling mud was manufactured by Union Carbide and sold by Chevron Phillips. […]
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