AKER VERDAL A/S v. Neil F. Lampson, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• the guiding principle of tort law is to make the injured party as whole as possible through pecuniary compensation
• claim for labor costs was unliquidated since “it was within the jury’s discretion to determine a reasonable hourly rate”
• claim for labor costs was unliquidated since “it was within the jury’s discretion to determine a reasonable hourly rate”
• claim for labor costs was unliquidated since \it was within the jury's discretion to de_termine a reasonable hourly rate\
• since it was within the jury’s discretion to determine a reasonable hourly rate, the plaintiffs labor costs were unliquidated and plaintiff not entitled to prejudgment interest on the amount awarded for labor costs
• plaintiff made in-house repairs to part of damaged crane, and jury decided to measure damage as the internal cost of labor and materials rather than as the rate plaintiff could have charged the customer if crane had not collapsed; held, cost of in-house repair was unliquidated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).