Usually, that will involve the award of damages, although other kinds of remedies are available. This part of the Handbook talks about what damages are, how they are calculated, who gets to pay them, what the hidden costs of litigation can be, and what remedies a victim can get when damages are not enough. You will find additional discussion of specific damages issues as they relate to specific topics throughout the Handbook. The law recognizes a wide range of kinds of damages. Only a few of them are addressed here.
Direct damages are the losses suffered as the immediate result of wrongful conduct.
If the claim is for an auto accident without personal injury, it's the cost of repairing the victim's automobile. If the victim's auto can't be repaired for less than its value, then it's the value of the auto at the time of the accident. If the claim is for a purchaser's breach of a contract to purchase widgets, then the victim's damages are the profits he or she would have made on the sale. Direct damages are those losses which a reasonable person could foresee as resulting from that wrongful conduct. Special or Consequential .