Until 2008, Texas law excluded punitive damages from insurance coverage as a matter of public policy. Northwestern National Cas. Co. v. McNulty, 307 F.2d 432 (5th Cir. 1962). In 2008, the Texas ...

This June, the Supreme Court, in a 5-3 decision, reduced the punitive damages in the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill from $2.5 billion to “only” $507 million. Partisans on both sides of Exxon Shipping v.

Hans von Spakovsky was an authority on a wide range of issues for Heritage—including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration. Abstract: The Obama Administration and its allies in ...

I previously wrote about the Kekona case in my article, Hawaiian Fraudulent Transferee Hangs Ten To Punitive Damages. In Kekona, the creditors (Benjamin and Tamae Kekona) brought won a judgment ...

Testimony to determine how much the defendants in the pension collapse would pay in punitive damages was set to start when jury was dismissed Thursday.

Punitive damages continue to generate headlines and heated debate across the country. As New York practitioners are well aware, the U.S. Supreme Court has in recent years addressed the due process ...

The headquarters of Reynolds American is seen next to the old R.J. Reynolds Tobacco smoke stacks from a previous manufacturing plant in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina May 23, 2014.

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 ...

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 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.