You don't have a claim until you make a ransom payment and have an out-of-pocket loss.

After Nick gets back his out-of-pocket losses, I want to buy out Guillermo and take over the business myself.

Investors often ask for such damages on top of compensation for their out-of-pocket losses, but have seldom received them.

Investors' out-of-pocket losses are estimated at $168.7 million.

Staying out of the stock market during the last two years, he says, has probably meant more "losses," in missed opportunities, than the out-of-pocket losses from the 1987 crash.

What they're getting on publicity for this job will more than pay them back for out-of-pocket losses.

In addition to securing the co-op, successful plaintiffs can also recover attorneys' fees, out-of-pocket losses and damages for humiliation.

That is taken to mean that those damages could be more than out-of-pocket losses.

He has bet $750 and received $680, an out-of-pocket loss of $70 on his $250 in "winnings."

"They prefer instead to get coverage for out-of-pocket losses."