Litigation
Jul. 4, 2003
Bifurcation of Punitives Is Not Necessarily Best for Defendant
Focus Column - Litigation - By John B. Quinn and William C. Price - On the morning of your final status conference, your client, the defendant, cannot lose one pretrial motion: bifurcating punitive damages from liability. True, your motion to exclude consequential damages may be iffy. And you may have only a 50-50 chance of winning your motion to disqualify the plaintiff's touchy-feely expert. But a California court must grant the motion to bifurcate. Civil Code Section 3295(d).
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