"Sometimes juries return $100,000 in punitive damage ... that's not even a traffic ticket to Philip Morris," Celene H.

How much is “too much” when it comes to punishment? From Virginia courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, judges have wrestled with punitive damages and the fine line between deterrence and excess. This ...

Philip Morris claimed a jury that awarded $1 billion in damages had clearly gone off the rails, but the justices weren’t so ...

As a result, treble damages authorized under RPAPL 861 were not available to the tree owners against the Town of Lodi, because the latter was immune from punitive damages under New York law. PRAPL ...

Ruling marks first time a state supreme court fully upheld punitive damages against the company in multiple cases related to ...

Blake Lively claims she lost a staggering $161 million due to the smear campaign launched against her during the release of ...

MORRISTOWN — Facing potentially devastating punitive damages on top of a landmark $5 million verdict, the headmaster of the exclusive Delbarton School testified that another large monetary award ...

Southwest Judicial District Judge James Gion reduced the award after finding some of the jury’s damages had no legal basis, ...

A Miami jury Friday found Tesla partly liable for a 2019 fatal crash involving its Autopilot system, ordering the automaker to pay more than $242 million in damages to the victims. The family of ...