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A Review of the US Punitive Damages Liability Landscape


A Review of the US Punitive Damages Liability Landscape - Chubb

Compensatory damages “compensate the injured party for the injury sustained, and nothing more.”1 For example, if a defendant runs into a pedestrian plaintiff ...

A Review of the US Punitive Damages Liability Landscape - Chubb

This paper addresses similar questions but focuses on the punitive damage landscape in respect of Employment. Practices Liability (“EPL”). A Review of the U.S. ...

A Review of the U.S. Punitive Damages Liability Landscape

A Review of the U.S. Punitive. Damages Liability Landscape. Richard Porter. Chubb Bermuda. Page 2. 3. Executive Summary. What are punitive damages? How ...

Current Trends in the American Law of Punitive Damages

(1982), and Punitive Damages in Products Liability Litigation, 74 Mich.L.Rev. 1257. (1976). 655 F.2d 650 (5th Cir. 1981). Page 4. 352. ANGLO-AMERICAN LAW REVIEW.

Navigating Punitive Damages: Trends, Insurability, and Protection ...

Punitive damages have long been held as a means of punishing a defendant for malicious, willful, or fraudulent conduct and to discourage future wrongdoing.

Wilson Elser's Punitive Damages Review 2023 50-State Survey

To whom punitive damages are payable. Download a copy. This is a general guide that includes a useful single-page summary designed to place at ...

The Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards - Harvard Law School

judgments of Liability for Punitive Damages, 23(5) LAW & HUM. BEHAV. 597 ... Award on punitive damages reversed by U.S.. Supreme Court and remanded. 24 ...

Punitive Damages - Cato Institute

because they obtain reversals of trial court judgments more frequently than defendants. This suggests that, if products liability law is be- coming more ...

Punitive Damages and Class Actions - LSU Law Digital Commons

The Supreme Court cases that have reviewed punitive damages and class actions together-State Farm Mutual Automobile. Insurance Co. v. Campbell' and Philip ...

Punitive Damage - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

And the United States Supreme Court has indicated that a punitive damages award normally should bear a reasonable relation to the compensatory award. Social ...

Punitive Damages - ATRA - American Tort Reform Association

The difficulty of predicting whether punitive damages will be awarded by a jury in any particular case, and the marked trend toward astronomically large amounts ...

Punitive Damages and Strict Products Liability: An Essay in Oxymoron

It has been accepted for inclusion in Villanova Law Review by an authorized editor of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. Page ...

Punitive Damages - RAND

Argues that if the main purpose of punitive damages in product liability cases is to deter conduct that results in unsafe consumer products, the threat of ...

Punitive Damages: A Relic That Has Outlived Its Origins

J.D. 1984, Vanderbilt University. 1117. Page 3. VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW. B. Punishment and Deterrence Are Not ...

PUNITIVE DAMAGES: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Punitive damages law is one of the more controversial features of the. American legal system. Trial and appellate courts have been struggling for many years to ...

Punitive damages: An economic analysis.

HARVARD LAW REVIEW. [Vol. 111:869 opinions about the merits of ... Johnston, Punitive Liability: A New Paradigm of Efficiency in Tort Law, 87 COLUM.

Punitive damages - WTW

The U.S. Supreme Court considers punitive damage awards by state courts that exceed a single-digit multiple of compensatory damages to be “grossly excessive” ...

Vicarious Liability for Punitive Damages

PROSSER, HANDBOOK OF THE LAW OF TORTS § 2, at 12 (4th ed. 1971). Page 3. MARQUETTE LAW REVIEW. The only way vicarious liability for punitive ...

Ending the Punitive Damage Debate - Digital Commons@DePaul

Ausness, Retribution and Deterrence: The Role of Punitive Damages in. Products Liability Litigation, 74 Ky. L.J. 1, 96 (1985-86) (arguing that judges would be ...

Survey of U.S. State Laws on Insurability of Punitive Damages ...

application, in liability insurance coverage cases, of the law of the jurisdiction that is the principal location of the insured risk.” Amr. States Ins. Co. v.