Article: View this Comprehensive Approach to Defeating Punitive Damages in Light of Present-Day Juror Attitudes.

Article: Punitive damages limits at issue in high court ...
Business Insurance;  December 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... clarify how much is too much where punitive damages are concerned when it hears oral arguments ... Product Liability Advisory Council. ``Punitive damages are, obviously, a central issue ... as clear constitutional limits on punitive damages. To allow this punitive damage verdict ...

Article: Portland, Ore.-Based Tool Makers Punitive Damages ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... deciding how courts should review punitive damages awarded in a lawsuit. Tuesday, the ... ordered to pay $4.5 million in punitive damages by a Portland jury. Cooper appealed ... not reduce the $4.5 million in punitive damages. Cooper appealed again, this time ...

Article: Punitive damages case argued before High ...
National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition;  October 23, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... of the Fourteenth Amendment limits punitive damages. In a series of cases beginning in ... impose a substantive limitation on punitive damages, but that limitation has never been ... award in Alabama of $4 million in punitive damages when the compensatory award was only ...

Article: Punitive damages case sent back to Ala. ...
National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition;  November 11, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Supreme Court's own precedent on punitive damages outlined in the case of BMW v. Gore ... mental anguish," and $15 million in punitive damages. The punitive award was ultimately ... substantial harm. Awarding $5 million in punitive damages on top of this already inflated compensatory ...

Article: U.S. Supreme Court to hear Exxon punitive damages ...
Lawyers USA;  November 5, 2007 ;     405 words ... ... case challenging a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corp. The ... Alaska sued Exxon for compensatory and punitive damages, and a jury handed down a $5 billion ... award. The 9th Circuit reduced the punitive damages to $2.5 billion on due process ...

Article: Jury Gets Exxon Punitive Damages Case; ...
The Washington Post;  August 30, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... anything, the company should pay in punitive damages to 14,000 plaintiffs, including ... couple of weeks more. In the current punitive damages phase of the federal trial, the plaintiffs ... that if they return a large award for punitive damages, they will be sending corporations ...

Article: U.S. jury weighs punitive damages case ...
AP Worldstream;  April 10, 2006 ;     537 words ... ... billion) and that it sold $2.5 billion (euro2.07 billion) worth of Vioxx in one year alone. Under New Jersey law, punitive damages are limited to five times compensatory damages, which in this case would be $22.5 million (euro18.6 million ...