Universal Corporation Announces Substantial Reduction in Jury Award.
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Universal Corporation announced today that a California court has substantially reduced punitive damages previously awarded to plaintiffs in the case captioned Rosemary Valladares, et al v. Madera Quality Nut, Inc., et al. Compensatory damages awarded in the case were about $200,000, and punitive...

Malice/gross negligence.
In health care liability claims, claimants often plead for recovery of exemplary/punitive damages from the defendant health care providers. These allegations often cause anxiety for the defendants, because invariably their professional liability insurance carrier sends them a letter stating that such claims--as well as any damages that may be...

YMCA fined for overpricing bottled water.
NEW DELHI: Holding a local branch of the Christian youth organisation, YMCA, guilty of malpractice and 'unfair trade practice', a city consumer forum has slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 on it as 'punitive damages' for selling a bottle of mineral water above its maximum retail price (MRP). ...

Marlboro case at Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Philip Morris USA's appeal of an $80 million punitive damage award involving the death of a Marlboro smoker, raising concerns about the future of punitive damages in tobacco and other public health matters. The estate of Oregon resident Jesse Williams was...

Marlboro case at Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Philip Morris USA's appeal of an $80 million punitive damage award involving the death of a Marlboro smoker, rasing concerns about the future of punitive damages in tobacco and other public health matters. The estate of Oregon resident Jesse Williams was...

Bell v. Johnson.
U.S. Appeals Court DAMAGES COMPENSATORY DAMAGES PUNITIVE DAMAGES Bell v. Johnson, 404 F.3d 997 (6th Cir. 2005). A former state prisoner sued corrections officers, alleging that they had retaliated against him for filing a civil rights suit. The case was remanded...

The desirability of punitive damages in securities arbitration: challenges facing the industry regulators in the wake of Mastrobuono.
INTRODUCTION In 1985, an assistant professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Antonio Mastrobuono, and his wife, Diana Mastrobuono, entrusted all of their savings to Nick Diminico, a vice-president and representative of Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. (Shearson).(1) Diminico was hired to manage their money in...

'Tis better to give than to receive: charitable donations of medical malpractice punitive damages.
"Virtue down the middle," said the Devil as he sat between two lawyers.(1) It is difficult on principle to understand why, when the sufferer by a tort has been fully compensated for his suffering, he should recover anything more. And it...

Problems of punitive damages for political protest and civil disobedience.
"The rights protected by the First Amendment are of profound importance to our society. Free speech is a transcendent value in that other values and rights are subordinated. In effecting the primacy of the First Amendment [there is al preference for errors made in favor of free speech."(1) I....

U.S. District Court: PUNITIVE DAMAGES DAMAGES.
Gaston v. Coughlin 81 F.Supp.2d 381 (N.D.N.Y. 1999). In a [sections] 1983 suit a state prisoner alleged retaliation in violation of his constitutional rights for his complaints about work conditions. The district court found that prison officers were liable for First Amendment retaliation and that they were not entitled...