Article: Genentech Announces Decision in Contract Dispute.

Article: Punitive Damages
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      700+ words ...PUNITIVE DAMAGES Monetary compensation awarded to...intended to punish the wrongdoer. Punitive damages, also known as exemplary damages...the harm caused by the defendant. Punitive damages are a way of punishing the defendant...

Article: Supreme Court asks states to reform punitive damages laws.
State Legislatures;  April 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......challenging the constitutionality of a punitive damages award. The case, TXO Production Corp...compensatory damages and $10 million punitive damages--a ratio of more than 530 to 1. The...the Court had directly addressed the punitive damages issue in March 1991 in Pacific Mutual...

Article: Punitive Damages in Tort Law.
Trial;  July 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......defendant is a large corporation. Punitive damages, however, are awarded in direct...behavior, and the purpose of punitive damages is to deter similar misconduct. The availability of punitive damages affords trial lawyers, clients...

Article: Punitive damages: courts set limits to restore fair play.(Punitive Damages)
Montana Business Quarterly;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Punitive damages are out of control. In 1986, University...federal constitutional limit on punitive damages, citing the evil of repetitive and...awarded more than $91 million in punitive damages; 6 percent of those awards were...

Article: Uncertain seas for maritime punitive damages: once assured of smooth sailing, plaintiffs find that U.S. Supreme Court cases have muddied the waters.
Trial;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......area. Given this, could a jury assess punitive damages against Exxon? Would such an award...determine the appropriate amount of punitive damages? These questions are being asked not...Unfortunately, the answers are far from clear. Punitive damages have long been a part of American...

Article: Bringing corporations to justice. (Commentary).(limits on punitive damages)(Column)
Arkansas Business;  February 24, 2003 ;     669 words ......that the predication that limits on punitive damages would make our legal system fairer...thought all the way through. Limits on punitive damages will only serve to tilt the legal...huge, multinational corporations. Punitive damages represent the only means that American...

Article: An Outraged Court: Employer Liable for $500K in Punitive Damages.(Kevin Keays v. Honda Canada Inc.)
Mondaq Business Briefing;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......lawyers across the country. Record punitive damages in an employment case were awarded...dismissed and awarded $500,000 in punitive damages, in addition to 15 months' salary...out the facts on which the award for punitive damages was based in its decision. Keays was...

Article: A narrow ruling on punitive damages.
Trial;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Baker is that the decision is about punitive damages only in maritime cases. (1) In the...the Constitution in its analysis of punitive damages, and, in fact, it denied certiorari...s constitutional challenge to the punitive damages awarded against it. Justice David...

Article: Why tradition supports punitive damages and how the defense bar misreads history.
Trial;  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......constitutional and legislative limits on punitive damages awards. For example, defendants have...raises wholly new problems for which punitive damages were never intended. However, a survey...that die relevant tradition regarding punitive damages is precisely the opposite of what...

Article: Halt the misuse of punitive damages.(legal reform)
USA Today (Magazine);  September 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......appeals to the Supreme Court, the law of punitive damages seems to be as confused as ever. While courts and commentators agree that punitive damages are intended to deter wrongdoing or...Exxon liable for $5,000,000,000 in punitive damages. The result was hailed as just what...

Article: Punitive damages may be recovered from a deceased tortfeasor's estate. (Pennsylvania)(Brief Article)
Trial;  October 1, 1998 ;     347 words ......the completion of trial, punitive damages may be assessed against...awarded compensatory and punitive damages against the estate. On appeal...argued that the recovery of punitive damages against a decedent's estate...

Article: View this Comprehensive Approach to Defeating Punitive Damages in Light of Present-Day Juror Attitudes.
Business Wire;  September 13, 2005 ;     258 words ......addition of Defending a Company in a Punitive Damages Case: A Comprehensive Approach to Defeating Punitive Damages in Light of Present-Day Juror Attitudes...offering The prospect of a large punitive damages award is an imminent threat in...

Article: Punitive damages dispute may reach California high court.
Trial;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Supreme Court deemed excessive a punitive damages award that was 145 times the compensatory...reconsider its earlier affirmation of a punitive damages award in light of State Farm--modified...California's long-standing policy that punitive damages should serve as a deterrent to ...

Article: Punitive Damages Awards From the Twilight Zone.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
San Diego Business Journal;  March 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ......introduction fits into a discussion on punitive damages in our state. It is an area of law...California. No one would deny that punitive damages are, when fairness is at work, a necessary...grossly unfair, and the principle of punitive damages has been manipulated and twisted to...