Earlier today we reported on the plaintiff’s request for $2.5 billion in punitive damages in this case. The jury has just returned a verdict for $500 million in punitive damages, according to KLAS-TV. That’s $270 million against one defendant and $230 million against another. While that isn’t nearly as much as the plaintiffs requested, the combined punitive damages are still about 21 times the compensatory damages, which seems to present a serious constitutional excessiveness problem.
April 9, 2013
Las Vegas jury awards $500 million in punitive damages in hepatitis case
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