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damages - Coggle Diagram

- - - - survivorship = no common law right = a statue creating a survival action
        
        survival action = actions that allow deceased persons's sestate or family members to recvoer pain adn suffering, lost income, and other damges experienced between a tort and a victim's death
        
        does not apply to instatnaneous death cases
- - - - economic / pecuniary / specia ldaamges = damages wieht an ascertainable financial measure, such as lost wages or medical expenses; evidence is required
        
        awarded to compensate p for damges to their economic circumstnaces for ex. = diminished value of peoperty, or the cost or replacing peorpty; lsot wages while recovering form injury, and didminshed earning capacity; medical expenses
        
        the requirement fo discoutning = a process used to measure the value fo future streams of moeny by reducing them to their present valeu
- - - - lsos of consortium = awarded to a person'sspoues for lost companionship, affeciton, or intimaete relatiosn; or to a parent or child for lost companionship and affection
- - - - cour tmay demand specific indications of hatred taht rises to the level of reckelssness
        
        court may apply to any intentional tort the notion of implied malice, p need not show hatred or ill will, tort in and of itself is sufficent evidence
        
        nominal damages