compensation payments
Money for injuries
Compensation payments are sums of money paid to someone to make up for loss, injury, or suffering they have experienced.
The term appears most often in legal, insurance, and employment contexts, where such payments resolve claims or disputes.
Workers' compensation payments go to employees injured on the job; divorce settlements may include compensation payments to a spouse.
The company agreed to compensation payments for victims of the data breach.
Unlike damages awarded by courts, compensation payments often result from negotiated settlements.
- salariesFixed regular payments for work
- damagesCompensation for injury
- reparationsCompensation for historical wrongs
- indemnityProtection against financial loss
- pensionsOngoing payments after employment
restitution · severance pay · settlements · hush money · stock options · disability benefits · death benefit · redundancy pay · lump sum · overtime pay · sick pay · maternity leave · unemployment benefits · health benefits · vacation pay · grants · fair shake · injury claim
- Pacific lawtrusteeship, free association
- tribal justicetribal courts, indigenous law, tribal justice, tribal law, elder councils
compensation paymentspunitive damages
Award beyond actual losses
fines · penalties · forfeitures · confiscations · penalty payments
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