Damages and Compensation
Damages: Money Payments to Landowners and Displaced People and Businesses
Most eminent domain and relocation cases involve money damages, or payments to those affected by the government’s action. Attorneys representing owners are often able to obtain significantly more damages than what the government offered and asserts at trial. Experienced and focused MEDI attorneys know what money damages are available under the law and how, in litigation, they can be proven under the law.
The following is a partial list of damages that can be claimed depending on the facts of the case.
- Direct damages for real estate that is taken.
- Severance damages to property damaged but not directly taken.
- Tenant lease value damages.
- Property and business fixture damages.
- Loss of going concern damages when a business is destroyed by a taking.
- Residential and homeowner relocation costs.
- Business relocation costs.
- Highway and right-of-way accesses interference damages.
- Construction related interference damages.
- Minimum compensation damages to make owners whole.
- Attorney’s fees and expert fees incurred by landowners.