Category: Personal Injury
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Reduce personal injury and wrongful death damages by 50% in one easy step
Consider someone permanently injured or killed in their early 30s that: Undiscounted, that is $4.0 million in damages. Using the “risk-free” rates of today (some of the highest that have been seen in 20+ years), results in a damage payout of approximately $2.8 million. If you instead assume the “risk-free” rates will not stay at…
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The Basics of Duty to Mitigate
Many types of commercial litigation include the duty to mitigate. The duty to mitigate is an affirmative duty: a plaintiff must make reasonable efforts to reduce their losses. When a plaintiff does not, then their damages are reduced under the assumption they had taken reasonable efforts to reduce their losses, or they are excluded from…