Business Law
Sep. 2, 2026
Judge slashes $1.9M punitive award in family business fight
An Orange County judge reduced punitive damages against Mira Kim's father to $120,000 and eliminated a $500,000 award against her sister.
An Orange County judge has slashed punitive damages in a bitter family dispute over a real estate business, cutting the jury's combined $1.9 million punitive award to $120,000 by reducing the award against the father of Mira Kim -- who sued her parents and two sisters over the handling of their family-owned company -- from $1.4 million to $120,000 and eliminating a separate $500,000 award against her sister Gina Kim.
The reductions leave $149,371 in compensatory and punitive d...
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