Litigation
Jan. 22, 2014
State Supreme Court may not reconsider punitive damages ceiling issue
The high court appears to have punted on reconsidering the standard establishing a ratio of 10-to-1 for punitive to compensatory damages for isolated incidents of wrongful conduct.
By Omar Shamout
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The California Supreme Court appears to have punted on reconsidering the standard establishing a ratio of 10-to-1 for punitive to compensatory damages for isolated incidents of wrongful conduct.
The court in an en banc order last week limiting arguments in Nickerson v. Stonebridge Life Insurance Co. instructed the attorneys to brief and argue only whether an award of attorney fees under Brandt v. Superior Court<...
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