A federal judge confirmed an arbitrator’s award of $35,000 in punitive damages against a used car dealer for having written a higher income to pressure a customer into a substantially more expensive credit deal despite having the customer’s pay stubs in its possession.
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Agrochemical company Monsanto “deserves to be punished” for misleading the public about the safety of its popular Roundup weed killer, a federal judge said in a ruling Monday, but drastically punitive damages awarded to a San Francisco Bay Area man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Read moreA California appeals court upheld a judge’s decision to strike down a $400 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson, agreeing the company stopped making its talc-based product long before science linked talc to ovarian cancer.
Read moreDrunken driving collisions are indeed accidents, a unanimous Fifth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday, rejecting an insurer’s claims that coverage is not warranted because such wrecks are an expected result of driving while intoxicated
Read moreThe Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether victims of twin U.S. embassy bombings are entitled to punitive damages under a law adopted six years after the attacks.
Read moreA seaman who blames his injured hand on the Dutra Group’s failure to provide a seaworthy vessel is not entitled to seek punitive damages, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday.
Read more“Is the term drunk-driving accident an oxymoron?” one judge asked Tuesday as a Fifth Circuit panel considered when a car wreck is intentional or accidental in a case that could transform insurance coverage in Texas.
Read moreA federal judge reduced six former Charter Communications employees’ punitive damages for defamation to $350,000 per person, but denied Charter’s motions in all other respects.
Read moreA Tennessee statute capping punitive damages is unconstitutional, a divided Sixth Circuit panel ruled Friday, as state case law from the 1800s shows an award of punitive damages is historically a “finding of fact” that falls in the hands of jurors.
Read moreLegal experts disagree about what will happen in the wake of a California judge unexpectedly upholding part of a $289 million verdict against Monsanto after a jury found Roundup caused a school groundskeeper’s terminal cancer.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Although she refused to overturn a jury verdict against Monsanto finding its weed killer Roundup caused
Read moreIn a pair of documents filed late Tuesday, Bayer subsidiary Monsanto asked a California judge to overturn a $289 million jury award to a San Francisco Bay Area man because there is not enough evidence to support the man’s claims its Roundup weed killer caused his terminal lymphoma and his lawyers manipulated the jury.
Read moreSparked by a 44-foot-tall gray pine crashing into a power line during the prime of wildfire season, the deadly 2015 Butte Fire scorched through the heart of California’s famed Gold Country.
Read moreThe Supreme Court invited the U.S. solicitor general on Monday to weigh in on whether a $10.2 billion judgment against Sudan was properly reduced.
Read moreEmployment discrimination cases involving gross negligence can result in an award of punitive damages under New York City’s anti-discrimination law, the Second Circuit confirmed Friday.
Read moreAfter a middle school boy in Wisconsin grew breasts because of the medication he took for Tourette’s syndrome, Janssen Pharmaceuticals was hit with a $535,106 jury verdict. The Pennsylvania Superior Court has now cleared the way for punitive damages.
Read moreA Los Angeles jury on Monday awarded the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and Katy Perry $10 million in punitive damages after finding a local developer interfered in a real estate deal between the church and the pop star.
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