Law 2101 Lecture Notes - Garden Tool, Punitive Damages, False Imprisonment
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It can be hard to put a dollar amount on this. How much money will it take to make the plaintiff"s life enjoyable again?) The insurance company was forced to pay punitive damages for the way they had treated the plaintiffs. Punitive damages are necessary because otherwise there is no downside to the insurance company turning people away. Nominal and trifling damages: nominal damages: awarded to vindicate the plaintiff"s rights where the plaintiff has suffered no material loss. These are only available for some torts (eg. battery, trespassing). These are awarded as an insult to the plaintiff: eg. you bring someone to court for walking across your lawn (technically they have trespassed, but you haven"t been hurt in any way) Some boys were throwing mud at a construction site. The plaintiff got hit on the side of the head and sued for battery.
