Hearing Set for Punitive Damages in Rape Case Against Cuba, Announces Leeds, Colby and Paris.
Motion to Amend Final Judgment Scheduled for March 23, 2001 MIAMI, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Honorable Alan Postman has scheduled a hearing on March 23, 2001, in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on the subject of punitive damages in the case of Ana Margarita Martinez against...

A jury has awarded a Santa Barbara County landowner $5.6 million in general and punitive damages because the county designated part of the landowner's farm as protected wetlands.
A jury has awarded a Santa Barbara County landowner $5.6 million in general and punitive damages because the county designated part of the landowner's farm as protected wetlands. The jury ordered the county to pay Adam Brothers Farming $5.47 million. The jury also ordered three current or former county...

No punitive damages in New Carissa case.
Byline: LARRY BACON The Register-Guard COQUILLE - A Coos County Circuit Court judge is going to deny a motion by the state to amend its lawsuit against the owners of the shipwrecked New Carissa to allow a claim for $50 million in punitive damages. Judge...

Boeing Co. sidesteps punitive damages.
Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports SAN FRANCISCO - The Boeing Co. is not subject to punitive damages in a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging the aircraft maker and Alaska Airlines were at fault for the January 2000 jet crash that killed all 88 aboard, a federal judge...

Punitive damage award of $5 million reduced.
WHEN THE CONDUCT OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IS SO OUTRAGEOUS AND CLEARLY CONTRARY TO APPLICABLE STANDARDS OF CARE, PUNITIVE DAMAGES CAN BE AWARDED. Often, there is a direct correlation between the amount of punitive damages awarded and the extent to which the conduct is outrageous and violative of applicable...

Goons batter defaulter's friend.
Byline: Rahul Chhabra NEW DELHI: In an incident of alleged forcible and violent repossession of a financed car, an east Delhi resident has moved the State Consumer Commission seeking compensation and punitive damages of Rs 47 lakh for use of goons by ICICI Bank. The...

Dealing with employees at the (roulette) wheel: companies are sometimes liable if an employee has an accident in a personal or company vehicle, but a sound risk management strategy can steer employers clear of the million-dollar verdicts of negligent-entrustment lawsuits.
"Negligent entrustment"--now those are two words that can (and should) strike fear into a risk manager's heart. Why? Because her company could be liable for punitive damages if an employee has a collision while driving for work purposes in either his own or a company-supplied vehicle. ...

Global climate change: the Roberts court and environmental justice.
The first full term of the Roberts Court was momentous. The two newest justices--the chief justice and Justice Alito--pledged "judicial modesty" in their Senate confirmation hearings, but they disregarded settled law on politically charged issues: abortion, affirmative action, campaign finance reform, punitive damages for tobacco companies, and separation of...

Merck will appeal verdict in NJ Vioxx case.
Merck has announced its intention to appeal the decision returned by a New Jersey state court jury assessing compensatory and punitive damages in a trial of a product liability case brought by Frederick Humeston, an Idaho man who blamed his heart attack on Vioxx. The verdict was...

Stop outrageous awards.
A recent United States Supreme Court ruling involving Philip Morris may have blown a chance to erode arbitrary state court punitive damages awards and created inevitable confusion for trial judges and juries. The history of the Supreme Court's treatment of excessive punitive damages awards is rich--with this...