You can't control every expectation a user might have, and, as we've seen, there are some ways to stop expectations damaging reality.
Or how does contracting behavior differ if the measure of damages shifts from expectation damages to reliance damages?
As the Restatement says, expectation damages "put [the promisee] in as good a position as he would have been in had the contract been performed, that is, had there been no breach".
And the recently adopted Restatement of Restitution gives courts discretion to replace the expectation remedy with disgorgement for breaches that are material, deliberate, and profitable, on the generic ground that expectation damages are "inadequate" (see R3 Restitution; see also Kull 2001: 2023 24).
In Europe, stocks, led by insurers, fell on expectations that damage related to the storm would increase claims, while political jitters in debt-laden Italy cast shadows on the euro zone.
But sometimes, our expectations can damage our children.
But within News Group there is confidence that even successful litigants will have to revise downwards their expectations of damages.
Hilliard said that the risk management policy operated by the joint venture obscured the likelihood of a terrorist attack by amalgamating it with the lesser expectation of damage to a pipeline – producing a combined lower score that did not trigger an alarm.
It represents the expectation of damage in the case of a single flood occurrence, which is estimated by integrating a physical-based approach as a Total Runoff Integrating Pathways (TRIP) model with Gumbel distribution metrics.
The DfE said feedback suggested a "meets expectations" ranking could damage the reputation of institutions that received it, while outstanding and excellent were regarded as confusingly similar.
