Unfortunately, but perhaps inevitably, the calculation of the compensatory award is highly speculative.
Above all, you should be aware of an extremely important ceiling on the compensatory award.
The compensatory award may be reduced if you have failed to mitigate your loss.
If a general payment is made, the tribunal will have to interpret whether it does actually cover both basic and compensatory awards.
They say large corporations may view smaller compensatory awards as an acceptable cost of doing business.
This could lead to a compensatory award for any loss the new employer incurs due to not having the information.
A tribunal must make a compensatory award if it has made a basic award.
Florida does both: in most cases it limits punitive damages to $500,000 or three times the compensatory award, whichever is greater.
The compensatory award will be tripled under the Federal racketeering law.
She received the highest single compensatory award, $300,000.