NOUN
- (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated
How To Use compensatory damages In A Sentence
- If the jury had ruled against compensatory damages, the case would not have been able to proceed to the punitive stage.
- Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.
- The family is asking for $25 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages from the police department. Parents of girl who drowned in D.C. pool sue city for $75 million
- A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: August 14, 2009
- The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and asks for $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. Tyra Banks SUED Over Teen Sex Addicts Show
- If they prevail, they are entitled to compensatory damages.
- Aggravated damages occupy a murky middle ground between normal compensatory damages and exemplary damages.
- The city and hospitals sought $455 million in compensatory damages to cover the costs of treating smoking-related conditions for patients who couldn't cover their own health-care costs. Tobacco Companies Win Verdict
- Thus, where the claimant suffers personal injuries the measure of compensatory damages will cover all the injuries that have been suffered physically, psychologically and mentally.
- According to the basic concept of compensation damages, both tort liability and the liability of breach of contract are compensatory damages.
