are payments that a defendant must make to a winning plaintiff in a civil lawsuit to compensate the plaintiff for the injuries or costs that the defendant's actions have caused.

Compensatory damages.

Explanation:

Compensatory damages are amounts of money that is awarded by a civil court to a plaintiff to compensate him for damages, injury or other incurred loss. Compensatory damages are usually awarded when there is injury as a result of negligence or unlawful conduct of the defendant.

The onus is on the plaintiff to prove that a loss occurred and that it can be attributed to actions of the defendant.

Compensatory damages are awarded based on estimate of injury to the plaintiff.

Punitive damages on the other hand is often above injury estimate and is used as a deterrent to reoccurrence.

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