lost earnings

Wages, salary, or other income that a person could have earned if he or she had not lost a job, suffered a disabling injury, or died.

• Lost earnings are typically awarded as damages in personal-injury and wrongful-termination cases. There can be past lost earnings and future lost earnings. Both are subsets of this category, though legal writers sometimes loosely use future earnings as a synonym for lost earnings. Cf. LOST EARNING CAPACITY. [Cases: Damages 37. C.J.S. Damages §§ 54–55.]

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译者筠怡，毕业于法国顶尖的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与产品责任与集体侵权诉讼相关的法律文件。