Compensatory Damages
Compensatory damages are intended to restore the plaintiff to the position he or she would be in if the contract had not been breached.
In my particular case, on my original pleadings I asked to be compensated for the new phone that I had to buy from one of Rogers’ competitors and I also asked to be compensated for the income that I had lost when I was forced, by the breach, to drive my son back and forth to school every day rather than put him on the subway.