Add to ORKGPunitive damages, also known as exemplary damages, smart money, or vindictive damages, are damages awarded to a plaintiff on a finding of malicious, fraudulent, willful, wanton, or reckless conduct by a defendant, indifferent to the rights and safety of others. The purpose of exemplary damages is to protect the public from reckless, willful acts and to punish the wrongdoe
The decedent recovered from defendant a judgment for personal injuries which was satisfied during de...
The usual assertion that restitution is not punitive is true in the important sense that liability...
This Article focuses on the concept that punitive damages can be justified as a substitute for compe...
Punitive damages in tort law, awarded to the plaintiff in addition to full compensation for injuries...
Punitive damages are a tool for punishing defendants who engage in reckless and wanton behaviors tha...
It is an ancient truth that the tort law is amoral in the sense that the degree of culpability of th...
This Article proposes that the value of statistical life ("VSL ") be used to set the total damages a...
The right of action for wrongful death was not seriously considered by the common law courts until 1...
Since the adoption of the Fatal Accidents Act of 1846 in the United Kingdom, each of the fifty Unite...
Criminal restitution is a core component of punishment. In its current form, this remedy rarely serv...
Punitive damages are traditionally understood, at least in part, as damages designed to punish. It s...
A majority of jurisdictions in the United States have determined, either statutorily or judicially, ...
Punitive damages occupy a special place in the U.S. legal system. Courts award them in very few case...
In an attempt to mitigate the carnage wrought by drunken drivers, many jurisdictions have imposed pu...
Punitive damages constitute an award to an injured party above what is necessary to compensate for a...
The decedent recovered from defendant a judgment for personal injuries which was satisfied during de...
The usual assertion that restitution is not punitive is true in the important sense that liability...
This Article focuses on the concept that punitive damages can be justified as a substitute for compe...
Punitive damages in tort law, awarded to the plaintiff in addition to full compensation for injuries...
Punitive damages are a tool for punishing defendants who engage in reckless and wanton behaviors tha...
It is an ancient truth that the tort law is amoral in the sense that the degree of culpability of th...
This Article proposes that the value of statistical life ("VSL ") be used to set the total damages a...
The right of action for wrongful death was not seriously considered by the common law courts until 1...
Since the adoption of the Fatal Accidents Act of 1846 in the United Kingdom, each of the fifty Unite...
Criminal restitution is a core component of punishment. In its current form, this remedy rarely serv...
Punitive damages are traditionally understood, at least in part, as damages designed to punish. It s...
A majority of jurisdictions in the United States have determined, either statutorily or judicially, ...
Punitive damages occupy a special place in the U.S. legal system. Courts award them in very few case...
In an attempt to mitigate the carnage wrought by drunken drivers, many jurisdictions have imposed pu...
Punitive damages constitute an award to an injured party above what is necessary to compensate for a...
The decedent recovered from defendant a judgment for personal injuries which was satisfied during de...
The usual assertion that restitution is not punitive is true in the important sense that liability...
This Article focuses on the concept that punitive damages can be justified as a substitute for compe...