A federal judge denied Jane Doe’s claim for punitive damages against the executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate for alleged sexual assault. New York and U.S. Virgin Islands laws bar recovery of punitive damages against a decedent tortfeasor’s estate.
Read moreA federal judge in California reduced $100,000 in punitive damages awarded to five Volkswagen drivers to $28,000 over its emissions cheating scandal, ruling that the original damages were more than constitutionally allowed.
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Emphasizing the U.S. military response to Sudan for having supported a pair of embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, a lawyer for the victims argued Monday at the Supreme Court that punitive damages were appropriate.
Read moreA California jury awarded $50,000 in punitive damages Tuesday to the widow and estate of a crime lab worker who killed himself after being wrongly implicated in a murder investigation.
Read moreA judge in San Diego vindicated 22 Jane Does on Thursday by awarding them nearly $13 million in damages over the rights to videos they’d sought from adult film purveyor GirlsDoPorn following a monthslong civil fraud trial which garnered international attention.
Read moreA jury slapped Johnson and Johnson with $8 billion in punitive damages Tuesday, compensating a man who said he grew breasts after taking the company’s antipsychotic drug Risperdal.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Monday threw out a jury award of $8 million in punitive damages to John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter over a copyright dispute involving the author’s famous works.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit appeared poised Tuesday to toss nearly $8 million in punitive damages awarded to John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter in a decades-long copyright spat between the Nobel Prize laureate’s heirs.
Read moreAlva and Alberta Pilliod, a Livermore couple who attributed their cancer diagnoses to years of Roundup use, will see only a fraction of the $2 billion in punitive damages a jury awarded them in May. A state trial judge cut their award down considerably in an order Thursday to a total of $86.7 million, which breaks down to about $30 million for Alva and $56 million for Alberta.
Read moreA 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.
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