The phrase "ask for compensation for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when requesting reimbursement or payment for a loss, damage, or inconvenience experienced.
Example: "After the accident, I decided to ask for compensation for the damages to my vehicle."
Alternatives: "request reimbursement for" or "seek payment for".
We still have the right to prosecute him and to ask for compensation for his crimes".
Thus, the owner may, under certain circumstances, ask for compensation for damages and for the restitution of benefits received by the possessor.
CO2 effects the tax band that a vehicle sits in and its fuel consumption, so governments will be able to force the company to repay tax credits, and customers will ask for compensation for their fuel costs.
The Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, has denounced the scale of the Israeli counterattack, saying that he will ask for compensation for his country's losses, and has rightly appealed to the United Nations, Europe, and the United States to broker a ceasefire.
In its decision, first made last year and confirmed in July, it said that because the "errors" of the doctor and the laboratory "had prevented Mrs. Perruche from exercising her choice to end the pregnancy in order to avoid the birth of a handicapped child, the latter can ask for compensation for damages resulting from this handicap".
It said it would ask for compensation for the billions of dollars it said the new law would cost it.
Tony Blair has been challenged by a Commons select committee to explain why he allegedly failed to ask for compensation from Muammar Gaddafi for the victims of Libyan-supplied IRA weapons.
He is also asking for compensation for the suffering he endured there.
The South Korean leader responded by asking for compensation for the surviving former sex slaves, most now in their 80s.
Four hundred families gave petitions to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul asking for compensation for the loss of family members and homes.
