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Making Amends

Obviously the recovery of financial damages alone doesn’t take care of the aggrieved buyer’s customers, which may be far more important than the profit realized from any one...

Doug Nelson

September 15, 2014

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Obviously the recovery of financial damages alone doesn’t take care of the aggrieved buyer’s customers, which may be far more important than the profit realized from any one transaction.

And in truth it may be impossible to know what the buyer really would have sold the product for had it arrived in good condition. But by recovering damages in an amount that reasonably and objectively appears to compensate the aggrieved party for losses incurred on the specific transaction in question, the aggrieved buyer is, at least in theory, made whole.

Doug Nelson is vice president of the Special Services department at Blue Book Services. Nelson previously worked as an investigator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and as an attorney specializing in commercial litigation.

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