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
- Strict limits on the ratio of punitive to compensatory damages would elevate the importance of accurate measurement of compensatory harm.
- The jury made plain that their award was for aggravated compensatory damages.
- If such claim in equity is warranted, the breach of which provides for a right of action and compensatory damages for any loss established, no limitation period applies.
- The jury awarded $11.2 million in compensatory damages.
- A limited ratio of punitive to compensatory damages would also be appropriate in the great majority of other tort cases.
- Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.
- But there, the plaintiffs' families could only get compensatory damages, for losses such as the victims' lost future income.
- The jury awarded $11.2 million in compensatory damages.
- She was awarded a large sum in compensatory damages .
- If the jury had ruled against compensatory damages, the case would not have been able to proceed to the punitive stage.
