compensatory damages

基本解释

The system would be working well if any underestimated compensatory damages were just about offset by inflated punitive damages.
如果被低估的補償性賠償金能夠恰好被懲罸性賠償金的提高所觝消，那麽侵權責任制度也會運作得很好。
Yet there is need for some tort reform because there is too much litigation, compensatory damages are often too low, and punitive damages have sometimes been grossly excessive.
的確侵權制度需要一些改革，因爲通常許多案子的補償性賠償金都很低，而懲罸性賠償金有時卻過高。
News Group Newspapers is strongly contesting the action, which includes an unprecedented claim in a privacy case for exemplary or punitive damages as well as compensatory damages.
報業集團對此次事件展開了激烈的爭論。這是涉及個人隱私權問題而請求天價懲罸性或懲戒性損害賠償以及補償性損害賠償的前所未有的訴訟。

Campbell, suggested that the ratio of punitive to compensatory damages should be in the single digits.
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Hunter is now seeking compensatory damages and punitive damages for an unspecified amount.
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Unlike so-called compensatory damages, which are designed to make up for monetary losses, punitive damages are meant to punish the wrongdoer in a civil case, and deter similar conduct in the future.
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