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Punitive damages are taxable: Some judgments and settlements include an award for punitive damages against the defendant. These damages can provide a substantial payout to the plaintiff ...
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the due process clause usually limits punitive damage awards to less than ten times the size of the compensatory damages awarded and that punitive damage awards of four times the compensatory damage award is "close to the line of constitutional impropriety".
In Australia, punitive damages are not available for breach of contract, [5] but are possible for tort cases.. The law is less settled regarding equitable wrongs. In Harris v Digital Pulse Pty Ltd, [6] the defendant employees knowingly breached contractual and fiduciary duties to their employer by diverting business to themselves and misusing its confidential information.
Generally, punitive damages, which are also termed exemplary damages in the United Kingdom, are not awarded in order to compensate the plaintiff, but in order to reform or deter the defendant and similar persons from pursuing a course of action such as that which damaged the plaintiff.
A settlement has been reached in the case of a former Mansfield Christian School student who claimed she was ... infliction of emotional distress and punitive damages. Former student who alleged ...
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge issued a decision and judgment Tuesday, awarding Dorothy Farrell compensatory and punitive damages against George Robb, Jr., after he didn’t show up for any of ...
The trial judge reduced the jury's punitive damages award to $3.5 million. On appeal, Ford contested the trial court judgement on the basis of errors, and contested the punitive damages award on the grounds of an absence of malice and that the punitive damages award was not authorized by statute and was unconstitutional. The appellate court ...
The settlement is highly unusual in the annals of Trump's many lawsuits against news outlets, ... Last January, a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in compensatory and punitive damages.