Sentences with phrase «higher compensatory award»

Not exact matches

The Minnesota Supreme Court has upheld an $ 820,000 compensatory - damages award won by the North St. Paul - Maplewood school district from the producer of an asbestos fireproofing spray used in a high school built in 1969.

State regulations limit the punitive damages to not exceed five times the compensatory damages already awarded, or $ 350,000, whichever is higher.

In 2008, the Court took this concept even further, holding that an award of punitive damages higher than the compensatory damages award would make punitive damages too «unpredictable» for corporations.

The Court of Appeal upheld these findings, as well as the award of $ 20,000 of compensatory damages for discrimination, which they found to be on the high end but reasonable in light of the facts.

The court did find the double - digit ratio between Coalson's compensatory and punitive damages award to be somewhat high.

«The award here should be limited to an amount equal to compensatory damages,» Souter wrote, adding the high court ruling endorses a $ 507.5 million amount calculated by a federal trial judge in 2002.

Although Rabinowitz relies on several libel cases in which the amount of the compensatory damages awarded was lower than that awarded here, other libel cases reveal compensatory damages awards in amounts higher than those awarded by this trial judge.

In another case arising from tobacco litigation, Philip Morris USA v. Williams, No. 07 - 1216, the Court will consider whether a punitive damages award that is nearly 100 times higher than the compensatory damages award may be justified by the reprehensibility of a defendant's conduct, despite the constitutional requirement that punitive damages be reasonably related to the plaintiff's harm.