1 - TORT - calculating Flashcards
1
Q
What different types of losses are there?
A
- Personal injury 🤕
- Psychiatric harm 🤪
- Property damage 🏡
- Consequential economic loss ⏳😭
- Pure economic loss 💸
2
Q
What are the 2 main remedies for personal injury & death?
A
Damages
Injunctions (rare)
2
Q
What are the 2 types of damages for personal injury/death?
A
- Special damages 👈: specifically provable & quantifiable financial losses at time of trials
- General damages 👉: future financial losses, which can’t be specifically proven & non-quantifiable losses e.g. compensation for injury
3
Q
What deductions are made when calculating damages?
A
- Contractual sick pay received due to injury
- Redundancy payment
- State benefits received as result of injury
4
Q
What can be claimed by estate/family for death by way of compensation?
A
- Estate can claim for any losses suffered by deceased up to date of death 👈
- Certain family can claim compensation if they depended on deceased 👨👩👧👦
- May also be able to claim bereavement awards and/or funeral expenses ⚰️😭
