Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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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.