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· 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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