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.

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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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.