If someone’s carelessness hurts you, New Mexico law gives you a way to recover what you have lost. Damages include not just the bills you pay but also the pain you endure. “Many people do not realize ...

Two days after jurors in Multnomah County found that the utility PacifiCorp was to blame for wildfires in 2020, they ordered the company to pay punitive damages. That’s in addition to the more than ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's (Seventh Circuit) decision in Curry v. Revolution Laboratories, LLC, 124 F.4th 441 (7th Cir. 2024), has drawn attention to the interplay between ...

On January 6, 2021, the Florida Supreme Court adopted an amendment to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.130 authorizing immediate appeals of orders granting or denying leave to seek punitive ...

A: Punitive damages are often referred to as exemplary damages. They are “to set an example,” to serve as a deterrent, to punish the wrongdoer who engages in behavior that is so offensive to the ...

This week we highlight petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether an award of punitive damages that doubles the compensatory damages can comport with due process and ...

A Bexar County jury has handed San Antonio-based HouseCanary Inc. a $175 million victory, finding that title-services company ...

Plaintiffs could more easily win punitive damages under a General Assembly bill that seeks to increase education funding. The bill would lower the standard for punitive damages, requiring plaintiffs ...

McCarter & English sought to recover punitive damages from a former client for allegedly refusing to pay legal fees. The Connecticut high court stipulated common-law punitive damages are not available ...

The Punitive Damages Act (Act) allows plaintiffs to potentially recover damages beyond those needed to make a plaintiff whole. Case law on the Act frequently includes the cautionary statement that no ...

The Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down excessive punitive damages awards as arbitrary deprivations of property without due process of law. In State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v.

Johnny Depp won the defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard on Wednesday following a nearly seven-week trial in Virginia amid allegations of domestic violence and sexual assault. A seven-member ...