Can You Sue Someone for Wasting Your Time?

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Frequently asked question, can you sue somebody for wasting your time? After all, time equals money, no? Well, the answer is probably not or generally no.

[00:00:08]The law doesn't compensate for your time, for the fact that you had a hard time with certain person, or the fact that you were stressed about a situation. Generally, the law compensates real dollars, out-of-pocket losses. I mean, it is possible. For example, if you are a doctor and you apportion certain time to do surgery and you had a commitment with this person and then this person simply doesn't show up, doesn't pay, that doctor his time may be very valuable and had and may have lost that time. You know, in certain situations, it may be recoverable. In general, it doesn't work. In general, you know, cases are very difficult and if you're going to go for time, you probably don't have the strongest of cases.