# Damages calculation
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Structure and calculate damages across economic, non-economic, punitive, and statutory categories for civil litigation, arbitration, and settlement negotiations.

Structure and calculate damages across economic, non-economic, punitive, and statutory categories for civil litigation, arbitration, and settlement negotiations. Use when quantifying harm, building damages models, preparing expert briefings, evaluating settlement ranges, or supporting early case assessment with defensible exposure analysis. Covers lost profits, consequential damages, diminution in value, pain and suffering, emotional distress, punitive/exemplary multipliers, statutory penalties, and fee-shifting. Jurisdiction-agnostic with [JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC] markers for US federal/state, England & Wales, and Australia. Integrates with legalcode-early-case-assessment for case-level exposure modeling and legalcode-brief-analyzer for damages-section persuasiveness review.

This skill structures and calculates damages for civil litigation matters, producing defensible, jurisdiction-aware exposure models suitable for: - Early case assessment (pre-discovery damages framing) - Settlement negotiation (BATNA/WATNA corridor analysis) - Expert briefing (organizing inputs for economic/damages experts) - Motion practice (damages-related dispositive motions and Daubert challenges) - Trial preparation (damages proof checklist and presentation strategy) **Covers:** - **Economic damages**: Lost profits, lost revenue, diminution in value, out-of-pocket expenses, cost of repair/replacement, cost of cover, lost wages, lost earning capacity, medical expenses, future care costs - **Non-economic damages**: Pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of consortium, loss of enjoyment of life, hedonic damages, reputational harm - **Punitive/exemplary damages**: Multiplier analysis, constitutional limits (US), availability and thresholds (UK/AU), aggravated damages distinction - **Statutory damages**: Per-violation penalties, minimum/maximum ranges, willfulness multipliers, fee-shifting and cost awards - **Prejudgment/postjudgment interest**: Calculation methodologies, statutory rates, compounding conventions - **Mitigation**: Duty to mitigate analysis, avoidable consequences, collateral source offsets - **Discounting and present value**: Time-value adjustments for future damages streams **Does not:** - Replace qualified forensic accountants, economists, or vocational experts - Provide binding legal conclusions on recoverability or causation - Generate final expert reports or sworn declarations - Apply to criminal restitution (different framework) - ...

## Jurisdictions

Global



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