Sentences with phrase «cap punitive damage awards»

Not exact matches

Some lawyers and judges have taken that to mean that $ 1 million is a hard cap on punitive damages in Canada, bolstered by former Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie's comments in his decision restoring the award in favour of Will's client, in which he wrote: «An award of $ 1 million in punitive damages is certainly at the upper end of a sustainable award on these facts.»

When a case is determined to be worthy of punitive damages, the state of New Jersey caps the amount that can be awarded.

Some states have caps on damages that you can be awarded in a medical malpractice case, including punitive damages.

Is putting a cap on punitive damage awards in personal injury cases the best way to reform the legal system?

Ohio Revised Code § 2315.18 establishes caps on noneconomic damages while § 2315.21 (D) limits the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in civil lawsuits.

Punitive damages are also subject to caps and are only awarded in rare circumstances where the defendant's actions are so egregious that such punishment is warranted.

While Colorado allows courts to award punitive damages, it also places a cap on the amount that can be awarded.

Fortunately, the CADA amendments will provide caps on compensatory and punitive damage awards (also similar to Title VII, and incorporating the limits of Title VII for employers with 15 or more employees):

Punitive damages are a separate award from compensatory damages and are typically capped.

There is no cap on the amount of total compensation you will be awarded in any state, especially once you add in punitive damages, if any.

Some states impose a cap on the amount of punitive damages awarded to a plaintiff.

California law does not place a cap on the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in a lawsuit.

Punitive damages often rise to millions of dollars, so most places have caps on these awards.

Following a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $ 919.9 million in compensatory damages for defendant's willful and malicious misappropriation of 149 trade secrets, the Richmond U.S. District Court awards plaintiff $ 350,000 in punitive damages: Virginia's Uniform Trade Secrets Act caps punitive damages...

Under Texas statute, caps apply to medical malpractice awards and to certain types of punitive damage awards.

If leg - islatures have imposed caps on punitive damages through using a certain multiple of the compensatory damages or a certain flat dollar amount, then the wealthy defendant will simply view the punitive damages award as just a tax or a cost of doing business.

No matter what the constitutional challenge, a punitive damages cap «need only survive rational - basis review,» which it did in Pinnacle Hip «by injecting predictability into exemplary damages awards and preempting potentially unconstitutional awards.»