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• Cert. Denied in Buell-Wilson

  
  California Punitive Damages — Authority: 124
  The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order today denying Fords cert. petition in Buell -Wilson v. Ford . This appears to be the end of the line for Ford, which must now pay $55 million in punitive damages (plus another $27.6 million in compensatory damages). As far as I know thats the largest punitive damages award ...
  3 days ago

• SCOTUS Denies Cert in Ford Punitive Damages Case

  
  Cal Biz Lit — Authority: 114
      CBL first declared Fords hopes for reversal of the Buell-Wilson punitive damage award (as reduced in multiple post-verdict proceedings) dead in a post on March 28, 2008 .  Wrong.  Ford soldiered on for nearly another two years.     But its over now.  The US Supreme Court says ixnay on ertsay .  ...
  3 days ago

• What do you understand by the term Indemnity?

  
  Fair Loan Rate! — Authority: 140
  Indemnity is said to be the legal philosophy upon which the concept of most insurance policies rests. Strictly speaking, indemnity is the protection from loss and damage claims that is filed by another person. For instance, the owner of an amusement park may have indemnity insurance to compensate visitors that ...
  3 days ago

• Walter Olson Knows The Difference Between Punitive And Compensatory Damages, Right?

  
  Justinian Lane - Commentary on law, politics, and tort "reform." — Authority: 129
  I ask because over at Point of Law, he links to a post criticizing the $300 million dollar verdict against Philip Morris. The post badly distorts the law: Think for a minute about this theory of justice. Imagine applying it to, say, car accidents. By this logic, if a billionaire in a Rolls Royce crashed into Mr. ...
  4 days ago

• Florida Verdict Against Philip Morris

  
  Mass Tort Litigation Blog — Authority: 460
  Earlier this week, a Florida jury returned a $300 million verdict in Lucinda Naugles individual lawsuit against Philip Morris. The jury awarded $56 million in compensatory damages plus $244 million in punitive damages. Heres a WSJ Health Blog post, as...
  5 days ago

• Philip Morris Makes Ten Million Bucks A Day?

  
  Justinian Lane - Commentary on law, politics, and tort "reform." — Authority: 129
  Putting it in that light, a $244 million award for punitive damages doesn’t sound that high, does it? The Litigation Daily spoke with Naugles attorney, Robert Kelley of Kelley and Uustal , on Friday. We wanted to know, first of all, why this award was so much larger than those in previous Engle trials. One ...
  6 days ago

• Prempro lawsuits: Pfizer hit with $103 million more in punitive damages

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 793
  Filed under: Company News , Healthcare , Pfizer , Merck It seems that for Pfizer ( PFE ), the saga of Prempro is just beginning. Barely a month after the worlds largest pharmaceutical company lost a case related to Wyeths Prempro hormone replacement therapy drug and was ordered to pay punitive damages on top of ...
  1 week ago

• Update on Ogborn v. McDonald’s

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 603
  Those of you who have attended my “Law of McDonald’s” talks in California and Florida may recall the case of the strip search hoax . A Florida man who was unusually persuasive would call dozens of fast food restaurants until he could find someone who would believe he was with the police and who would disrobe ...
  1 week ago

• Sarah Palin “Going Rogue” On the Exxon Valdez Case

  
  ThePopTort — Authority: 421
  We were as surprised as anyone when Sarah Palin actually denounced the really bad 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision that slashed the Exxon Valdez oil spill verdict, saying 30,000 victims could only get one-tenth of the jury’s award.  She said it was a “huge disappointment,” that she didn’t think was ...
  1 week ago

• Health-Care “Reform” Bills Increase Costs, Endanger Access for Millions, Federal Experts Say

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 621
  The healthcare “reform” bill backed by Obama “ would reduce senior care ,” and “could jeopardize access to care for millions,” report healthcare experts at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The bill also “ increases medical costs ” through inflation, increasing health-care ...
  2 weeks ago

• Joint & Several Liability For Punitive Damages

  
  Cal Biz Lit — Authority: 114
      One of the more peculiar features of California tort law is the interplay between several liability and joint and several liability.  Under Californias Proposition 51 (Civil Code section 1431.2), when there is more than one tortfeasor, a defendants liability for "economic damages" -- e.g., earnings loss, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Unemployment Skyrockets: “U.S. now beating European unemployment rates”

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 621
  Unemployment is now higher in the U.S. than in Europe ,  reports the Washington Post .  “The official U.S. unemployment rate, reported last Friday, now stands at 10.2 percent,” compared to “9.7 percent” in Europe.   This is the highest rate in more than 26 years, and marks a huge change from the recent ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Punitive Damages

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 423
  The Eighth Circuit’s recent overturning (technically, affirming the district courts blow out) of a large punitive damages award in a hormone replacement therapy case got us thinking about punitive damages again. See In re Prempro Products Liability Litigation , ___ F.3d ___, 2009 WL 3518245 (8th Cir. Nov. 2, ...
  4 weeks ago

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