California Punitive Damages
This blawg discusses California punitive damages litigation.
Author: Curt Cutting, Lisa Perrochet, and Jeremy Rosen are partners at Horvitz & Levy in Encino, Calif.
Blawg Related Categories: Appellate Practice • Consumer Law • Tort Law • States • California • Partner
Recent Posts from California Punitive Damages
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Oregon Court of Appeals Reverses $7 Million Punitive Damages Award, Splits on the Appropriate Remedy
The Oregon courts are once again making news in punitive damages litigation. Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued this opinion in Wieber v. Fed Ex, reversing a $7 million punitive damages award as…
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Oregon Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Another Tobacco Case with Huge Punitive Award
Oregon has been a major battleground in punitive damages litigation in recent years, a trend that shows no signs of letting up. As we noted last week, the Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to decide…
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A Mixed Bag For Pfizer On Prempro Punitive Damages
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. That adage is illustrated by these two reports which appear today on Bloomberg.com:Pfizer Doesn't Have to Pay $27 Million Prempro [Punitive Damages] AwardPfizer Jury Said to Award $75 Million…
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Count Dracula Wants Punitive Damages
Apropos of the season, fake news service CarbolicSmokeBall has this story: "Dracula Files Products Liability Suit Against Wooden Stake Manufacturers."
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Kausch v. Wimsatt: Attorney Not Liable for Punitive Damages in Dispute with Client
Things have been quiet lately in the California punitive damages arena. The California Court of Appeal (Second Appellate District, Division Three), issued this unpublished opinion yesterday, but it's not particularly noteworthy. The plaintiff was involved…
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Judge Weighing Punitive Damages for Failure to Warn of Dangers of Baseball Bat
Is this really a punitive damages case? As reported by the Associated Press, a judge in Montana is deciding whether to impose punitive damages on a manufacturer of aluminum baseball bats. A jury has already…
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Jury Awards Undisclosed Amount of Punitive Damages Against Pfizer in Prempro Litigation
As reported by Bloomberg and the Associated Press (via the Seattle Times), a Philadelphia jury has awarded an undisclosed amount of punitive damages against Pfizer in litigation over its hormone replacement drug, Prempro. The judge…
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Oregon Supreme Court Accepts Certified Question on Split-Recovery Statute
In a previous post we reported that the Ninth Circuit had certified the following question to the Oregon Supreme Court:When a jury has returned a verdict that includes an award of punitive damagesunder Oregon law,…
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Federal Judge Allows Plaintiffs to Seek Punitive Damages in Class Action Against Allianz
As reported by Courthouse News Service, a federal judge in San Diego has ruled that a class of senior citizens can seek punitive damages against Allianz Life Insurance. The plaintiffs contend Allianz used deceptive sales…
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Federal Judge Awards $300 Million In Punitive Damages Against Iran
As reported by Bloomberg, a federal district judge in Washington D.C. has awarded $310 million, including $300 million in punitive damages, to a victim of the 1984 embassy bombing in Lebanon. The judge determined that…