What is the range of damages available to a plaintiff in a motor vehicle accident case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Schmidlin v. City of Palo Alto, H034169 (Cal. App. 2011):
At the same time, it is readily apparent that the judgment on many claims like plaintiff's will not be large enough to finance a successful prosecution of the claim. Damages in these cases are generally governed by common-law tort principles. (See Smith v. Wade (1983) 461 U.S. 30, 34.) It is central to those principles that the only
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