2010 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Courts and Civil Proceedings
12-589 Discounting future damages to present value
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12-589. Discounting future damages to present value A. If future damages are ordered to be paid in advance of the period to which they apply, the court shall compute the present value of the future payments by discounting each remaining annual payment by a rate of interest equal to the interest rate of the most recent issue of fifty-two week United States treasury bills sold before the date damages are discounted. B. To compute the present value of a lifetime award of future damages pursuant to section 12-584, subsection C, the duration of the term of payments shall be the life expectancy of the claimant at the time the computation is made prescribed by the race neutral life expectancy table for the appropriate sex in the current population survey collected by the bureau of the census for the bureau of labor statistics of the United States department of labor. |
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