Types of Damages for Personal Injury

Collecting Damages for Your Injury

There are a few types of compensation that you can ask for: compensatory damages, punitive damages and nominal damages.

Compensatory Damages

Compensatory damages are meant to reimburse you for your injury. There are two types of compensatory damages: actual damages and general damages.

Punitive Damages

Courts may order the defendant to pay the plaintiff punitive damages, which are meant to punish the defendant for his or her actions, if he or she is found to have acted intentionally or maliciously.

Nominal Damages

If there is little evidence of actual damages, the courts may still choose to award you a small sum of money to acknowledge that the defendant legally wronged you. Nominal damages can only be asked for in cases where intentional harm has been done.

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