What’s the highest fine a person can charge? And do victims get rich from the money they received?
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It depends.
The general rule for damages is to make the injured party “whole”. Damages are meant to bring the plaintiff back to where they started before the event occurred.
There is what is known as “punitive” damages which is meant to be a punishment. These are scaled to inflict appropriate hardship on the injuring party so as to curb the behavior that led to the injury.
If a large corporation causes someone’s death, the punitive damages would be far greater than if it were an individual of moderate income.
So yes, some people can become what you’d consider wealthy, there is no legal upper limit. Though, in the vast majority of cases victims do not.
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