§ 13-11 Damages - Future Damages

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§ 13-11 Damages - Future Damages

A plaintiff cannot recover conjectural or speculative damages. However, if you find the plaintiff is entitled to a verdict for actual damages, your verdict should include an amount to cover any damages that the evidence shows will be reasonably certain to occur in the future. Future damages need not be proved to a mathematical certainty and often must be approximated. These future damages must be the result of the defendant's negligence. Any future damages that you award must be reduced to their present-day value.

See Pearson v. Bridges, 344 S.C. 366, 544 S.E.2d 617 (2001)(whether future damages are reasonably certain to occur is the standard of proof for future damages); Smith v. Wells, 258 S.C. 316, 188 S.E.2d

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