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Personal Injury & Torts

Feb. 27, 2001

Business Takes Another Run at Damage Limits In Sacramento

SACRAMENTO - While the Supreme Court addresses an important punitive damages issue, a tort reform group in California is sponsoring a state bill that would limit punitive-damage awards against small businesses to three times the compensatory damages.

By Linda Rapattoni
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SACRAMENTO - While the Supreme Court addresses an important punitive damages issue, a tort reform group in California is sponsoring a state bill that would limit punitive-damage awards against small businesses to three times the compensatory damages.
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