QUANTIFICATION OF DAMAGES IN PERSONAL INJURY CLAIMS THE BASICS Alexandra Darcey Derwent & Tamar Chambers April 2023
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WHAT ARE DAMAGES? There is a difference between damage (harm) and damages In any claim for personal injury, it is necessary to establish the factual and the counter factual scenarios.
life is the damage or harm that they have suffered and will reflect the difference between what has happened and what would have happened if the accident had never occurred. Damages are a sum of money intended to place the injured person in the same position they would have been in had they not been injured. Damages are supposed to compensate the injured person for the damage that they have suffered.
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