Sentences with phrase «strike punitive damage awards»

The State's courts have shown no reluctance to strike punitive damage awards in cases where punitive liability is not established, so that defendant qualifies for judgment on that issue as a matter of law.

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The availability of an increased punitive damage award in a wrongful dismissal action because of a bad faith employer policy was recognized in Hodson v. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.2 The Divisional Court considered an appeal of an order striking paragraphs in the plaintiff's statement of claim that alleged that the Bank had an ongoing corporate strategy of terminating employees for cause to avoid having to provide unwanted employees with a severance package.

A claim for an increased punitive damage award based on systemic wrongdoing may strike some lawyers as dubious on the basis that a plaintiff should not be able to claim damages for the harm done to others.

Now businesses can face lawsuits with unlimited punitive damages and civil injury lawsuits after the Missouri Supreme Court struck down a $ 500,000 limit on awards in September 2014, two years after striking down other limits for medical - malpractice awards.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down an award of $ 2 million in punitive damages won by an Alabama man who claimed that his car dealer had partly repainted a BMW automobile before selling it to him in 1990.

It struck down an award of $ 2 million in punitive damages won by an Alabama man who claimed that his car dealer had partly repainted a BMW automobile before selling it to him in 1990, according to The Washington Post.