Consequential damages is one of those U.S. legal concepts that all lawyers learn about in law school, but nonetheless generates confusion and disagreement in legal practice. A typical seller's ...

Consequential damages waivers are included in most contracts, and can expose a company to significant liabilities, or just as easily bar a company from recovering for significant losses. These should ...

What is a consequential damage? This is the million (sometimes multimillion) dollar question. According to Black’s Law Dictionary, consequential damages are “losses that do not flow directly and ...

There are plenty of terms and provisions in a construction contract which can sound pretty definitive but which can actually prove to be anything but certain. A waiver of consequential damages is one ...

Many sophisticated commercial parties continue to include a boilerplate consequential damages bar in their contracts, often on the assumption that it protects against a multi-million dollar lost ...

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