In this week’s installment in our series on damages, the attorneys at Pavlack Law discuss damages available to a victim of a criminal offense. While it is true that in many, if not most, cases in which a person has committed a crime against another there is a...
In this, the sixth installment in our series on damages, we discuss the issue of prejudgment interest and when it may be available to a successful plaintiff. One aspect of damages that is often overlooked by both litigants and their attorneys is the role of...
In the fifth installment in our ongoing series of posts discussing damages the attorneys here at Pavlack Law discuss the two competing concepts of contributory negligence and comparative fault. While the concept of contributory negligence is fundamentally an issue of...
In the long history of the law governing torts there has been, perhaps, no more contentious form of damages than those for emotional distress. The result of the long series of battles to expand emotional distress injuries has resulted in – as is so very often the case...