· 2/17/1999
Salgado v. County of Los Angeles
Citations
- 967 P.2d 585
- 80 Cal. Rptr. 2d 46
- 19 Cal. 4th 629
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the jury must return a verdict for both present and future values and the trial court's periodic payment schedule must match both the present and future values
- holding that the jury must return a verdict for both present and future values and the trial court’s periodic payment schedule must match both the present and future values
- explaining that the generally accepted practice of discounting future damages “estimate[s] ... the actual amounts that plaintiff would have received” over the years (emphasis added)
- where the jury is instruct ed to determine both future medical damages and the present cash value of that amount, the trial court may not second-guess the Jury's determination and again reduce the Judgment to its present value
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Judges: Mosk
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