Sentences with phrase «compensatory damages totalling»

In a decision released in July, 2013, the GSB awarded the employee compensatory damages totalling $ 98,000 as well as lost vacation and a top up until retirement of overtime and shift premiums the employee would have received if he had been able to remain employed in the correctional facility.

In case involving First Union National Bank's violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Sixth Circuit holds that 1 - to - 1 ratio of punitive to compensatory damages is maximum federal due process will allow: And because the compensatory damages total $ 400,000, the district court's original award of $ 2,628,600 in punitive damages must likewise be reduced to $ 400,000.

Not exact matches

The jury awarded a total of $ 12,000 in compensatory damages and $ 1,500 in punitive damages.

The latter company was ordered to pay a total of $ 100 million in compensatory and putative damages in a recent case.

They were awarded compensatory damages for the costs of the property and refurbishment, in the total amount of $ 230,000.

Jurors awarded about $ 140 million in total compensatory damages and about $ 360 million in punitive damages, said Mark Lanier, lead trial counsel for the plaintiffs.

The Plaintiff claimed more than $ 17 million in past and future medical damages, and more than $ 27 million in total compensatory damages.

Drawing on Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., 2002 SCC 18, if an award of punitive damages, together with the compensatory damages awarded, «produces a total sum that is so «inordinately large» that it exceeds what is «rationally» required to punish the defendant, it will be reduced or set aside on appeal».

[v] Thus, if a harm of 10 is caused and there is 1/3 chance the D will be held liable, then augmented damages should be 20 in addition to the 10 in compensatory damages, for a total of 30, or 3 times the harm.)

[62] Putting the test the other way around, «if the award of punitive damages when added to compensatory damages, produces a total sum that is so «inordinately large» that it exceeds what is «rationally» required to punish the defendant, it will be reduced or set aside on appeal,»: see Whiten, at para. 109.