Sentences with phrase «for egregious behavior»

Such damages are intended not to compensate a plaintiff for actual losses sustained as a result of a defendant's actions or actions, but rather to punish a defendant for egregious behavior leading to personal injury and to deter the same and similar defendants from engaging in the same sort of behavior in the future.

Both bills give discretion to school administrators and / or school boards to modify the provisions for egregious behavior that is associated with harm to self or others.

Not exact matches

I don't think that's an excuse for sort of egregious behavior that we see.

Determining the motives of those people is beyond my pay grade, but motives don't count for a great deal in the face of such egregious behavior.

Hillary Clinton vowed to hold Wells Fargo accountable for «egregious corporate behavior» in a scandal over employees» opening millions of accounts without customers» knowledge.

It seems to us that whenever someone proposes actually holding teachers accountable for teaching (e.g. allowing principals to walk into their classrooms more than once a year to evaluate them; having real consequences for ineffective teaching or egregious behavior; etc.) there is a tsunami of push - back and vitriol that is knee - jerk, sadly effective and incredibly depressing if you know the very real impact their «teacher protection at all costs» policies have on students, especially low - income students who get the worst of the worst in our «zip code» - based system.

Answer: No, a criminal defendant «can not engage in courtroom misconduct and then expect to be rewarded with a mistrial or new trial for his or her egregious behavior...» (Legal Profession Blog, No New Trial When Defendant Assaults His Attorney)

Rather, they are a way to punish the defendant for intentional conduct or gross negligence — behavior that is so egregious that a civil court penalty is warranted in order to deter the defendant from committing the same act again in the future.

If the party responsible for an individual's catastrophic injuries engaged in especially egregious conduct, such as drunk driving, violent assault, very dangerous business practices, concealing known dangers from the public, or other grossly negligent or misleading behavior, the court may even find that the responsible party owes punitive damages, which are meant to punish the wrongdoer and deter future bad conduct.

In addition, your personal injury award could be drastically increased if the judge decides that the behavior and actions of the liable party are so egregious that they should be punished for their decisions.