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Damage caps have various purposes; for instance, they can discourage malicious lawsuits and prevent the costs of transacting business from being overly inflated, but have also been criticized as unjust. [20] Many American jurisdictions with non-economic damage caps have defined non-economic damages by statute.
The owners of a Colorado funeral home have pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy after police found 190 decaying bodies in a building at their business from where they sent fake ashes to ...
In Canada, punitive damages may be awarded in exceptional cases for "malicious, oppressive and high-handed" misconduct. [7] The Supreme Court of Canada set out 11 principles to guide judges and juries for awarding punitive damages in the leading case Whiten v Pilot Insurance Co 2002 SCC 18. The principles are not intended to form a checklist or ...
Colorado funeral home owners accused of misspending nearly $900,000 in pandemic relief funds and living lavishly, all while allegedly storing 190 decaying bodies in a building and sending grieving ...
The Bell scandal involved the misappropriation of public funds in Bell, California, United States, over a period of several years in the late 2000s.In July 2010, the Los Angeles Times published an investigative article on possible malfeasance in the neighboring city of Maywood, revealing that the city officials of Bell received salaries that were reported as the highest in the nation. [1]
(The Center Square) – Colorado has over $2 billion in unclaimed property that it owes to millions of individuals. The funds are held by the Great Colorado Payback, the Colorado Department of ...
Inverse condemnation is a legal concept and cause of action used by property owners when a governmental entity takes an action which damages or decreases the value of private property without obtaining ownership of the property through the use of eminent domain. Thus, unlike the typical eminent domain case, the property owner is the plaintiff ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the State of Colorado have filed a complaint against Greystar, a multi-family rental property manager, alleging that it deceived consumers about rental costs ...