Tesla has been found partly responsible for a deadly 2019 crash, and a federal jury ordered the automaker to pay more than ...

A court found Tesla partially liable for a deadly 2019 crash that involved the electric vehicle company's Autopilot system.

Today, the plaintiff (s) in a survival action can be awarded damages for the decedent’s pre-death pain, suffering or disfigurement. This law (which was recently amended) is set to expire on ...

Punitive damages can be imposed based on punishment and deterrence, but juries may also award punitive damages if they believe that the legally allowable compensatory damages in a particular case ...

Back in June 2023, now-FBI-Director Kash Patel sued Jim Stewartson for libel, alleging that Stewartson had falsely claimed that ...

Even if punitive damages can be proven, the award of those damages cannot be more than three times the amount of the actual compensatory damages awarded to the plaintiff or the sum of $500,000 ...

Punitive damages, though, were immediately reduced to the maximum amount allowed in the state, $350,000. Depp initially sought a $50 million payout, and Heard counter sued for $100 million in damages.

The jury then returned a punitive damages award of $25.5 million, assessing $3 million against the owner and $22.5 million against the contractor.

In State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408, 429 (2003), the Court struck down a $145 million punitive damages award as “an irrational and arbitrary deprivation of ...

Proving punitive damages is difficult and anything but automatic. Even if punitive damages can be proven, the award of those damages cannot be more than three times the amount of the actual ...