Civil Litigation
Mar. 10, 2020
Plaintiffs get $100K in punitive damages against VW
A San Francisco federal jury on Monday awarded $100,000 in punitive damages to the drivers of four vehicles who refused to accept Volkswagen AG’s settlement in a consumer fraud case involving its ‘clean diesel’ vehicles with devices that gamed emissions testing procedures.
A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday awarded $100,000 in punitive damages to the drivers of four vehicles who refused to accept Volkswagen's settlement in a consumer fraud case involving its 'clean diesel' vehicles with devices that gamed emissions testing procedures.
The four plaintiffs -- a couple and three individuals -- each got $25,000. They were awarded $5,727 in compensatory damages last week. Three other plaintiffs re...
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