Sentences with phrase «large punitive damage awards»

She has extensive experience representing defendants in appeals involving large punitive damage awards.

Successfully represented financial advisors in claims involving major Wall Street securities firms and obtained millions of dollars in compensatory and, in some cases, large punitive damage awards on behalf of the clients.

Concluding Keays was dismissed, in part, because he hired a lawyer and to avoid accommodating his disability, an Ontario judge granted him the largest punitive damages award in Canadian employment law history.

However, those claims that do succeed have resulted in noticeably larger punitive damage awards in recent years.

The largest punitive damage award in Ontario in the employment context is $ 450,000 in Pate Estate v. Galway - Cavendish and Harvey (Township), 1 a 2013 decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal.

It also provides a precedent (i) for holding the director of the corporate debtor personally liable for oppressive acts, and (ii) for claiming a large punitive damages award against an evasive judgment debtor.

Not exact matches

Noting that Goico's $ 2.5 million award includes $ 1.5 million in punitive damages against Wichita's largest employer, Brantner writes:

Canadian courts have so far enforced US judgments with damage awards far larger than the value of the transaction — though none (so far as I know) with a really astronomical jury - chosen punitive element.

If the initial complaint or other earlier filings had contained a claim for punitive damages, or even an allegation that the defendants acted maliciously, willfully, recklessly, wantonly, fraudulently, or in bad faith, the Court would have likely allowed the punitive damages issue to be heard by the jury, and the plaintiff may have received a larger award at the conclusion of the case.

Kwinter helped secure the largest jury award in the province's history for punitive damages against an insurer in the 2006 case Pereira v. Hamilton Township Farmers» Mutual Fire Insurance Co., with his clients ordered to receive $ 2.5 million.

This is the highest award for moral damages in employment law in the country and one of the largest amounts for punitive damages, says Galea's lawyer, Natalie MacDonald.

Despite the magnitude of the $ 750,000.00 award, employers should note that as a large company, Wal - Mart can be expected to face higher moral and punitive damages than a smaller company would for the same behaviour.

Indeed, the largest award in British Columbia for a violation of privacy under the Privacy Act, so far was only $ 35,000 for punitive damages and $ 15,000 for general damages: (Malcolm v. Fleming, [2000] Carswell BC 1316, (B.C.S.C.) a case where the defendant, the plaintiff's landlord, installed a video camera in the plaintiff's apartment and recorded her in various stages of undress in her bathroom and bedroom).

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».

We suspect the relatively large award for aggravated damages contained a punitive component.

[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.

Limits the amount of punitive damages recoverable from large employers (more than 25 employees on a full time permanent basis) to the greater of three times the award of compensatory damages or $ 250,000.

Limits the amount of punitive damages recoverable from all parties except large employers to the lesser of three times the award of compensatory damages or $ 100,000.