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Economic Damages are financial losses (in addition to pain and suffering) stemming from an injury. This can include compensation for losses both past and future, and can consist of medical expenses, rehabilitation, lost earnings, property repair and replacement cost, and employment.
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Non-economic Damages refer to pain and suffering, physical and mental impairment, disfigurement, inconvenience, and other financial losses. These damages also include quality of life damages for the victim’s family members. This form of compensation covers the family members of a victim who has suffered a severe injury, paralysis, brain damage, and/or fatality.
Other types of damages include:
- Incidental Damages
- Special Damages
- Consequential Damages
- Reimbursement
- Punitive Damages
Incidental damages can happen when a contract has been breached for the selling of goods. This form of breach usually causes additional expenses to form on the non-breaching parties half. Both sellers and buyers can be affected by incidental damages and can both recover compensation for the expenses accrued due to the breach.
Special damages include items that have not been documented due to circumstances after the overall loss transpired. These damages include, but are not limited to, the need to replace property with rentals, travel expenses, prescription fees, insurance or the cost of needed services to break even.
Consequential damages are losses or injuries resulting only after the overall consequences have been established for an act of a particular party. This can be seen as a snowball effect. When one individual causes damage to a piece of property it may affect those surrounding the property and so on and so forth.
Reimbursements consist of compensation awarded to an individual for an expense or expenses fronted. In most cases reimbursement is accumulated through work related matters or duties performed by one party ultimately for another.
Punitive damages are held against the party which is at fault as a form of punishment for wrongdoing and unacceptable behavior. Punitive damages are not classified as either economic or non-economic damages because they do not award compensation for losses. Instead these damages are a form of obligated payment to the individual or group who has suffered losses. These damages are given not only to deter the party from performing such malicious acts again but also to discourage others from acting in the same reckless manner.
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