Add to ORKGThe Act provides that a plaintiff, suing for a tort committed while the tortfeasor was under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or an intentionally taken substance that had the effect of impairing the person, can be compensated with punitive damages awarded against the tortfeasor. The Act does not require that such a tortfeasor display any intent to do harm or be acting in a malicious or aggravated manner. The Act does not limit the amount of punitive damages that may be awarded against the tortfeasor
The Act immunizes licensed physicians from civil liability for acts or omissions committed while pro...
Punitive damages occupy a special place in the U.S. legal system. Courts award them in very few case...
Since the 1980s, tort damages for pain and suffering have excited hue and cry. Twenty-three states c...
The limitations on a punitive damage award depend on the conception of punitive damages. Is it a pri...
The Act authorizes the owner of personal property to bring a civil action, subsequent to a written d...
Critics complain that punitive damages often serve no good purpose. Whatever the merit of this charg...
The Act requires certain disclosures to structured settlement sellers, including discount rates, fee...
Over the last fifteen years, the Supreme Court has formulated new constitutional principles to const...
In response to concerns that jury awards in tort cases are excessive and unpredictable, nearly every...
Primarily through tort law the courts compensate those injured by others. Secondary aspects of our w...
The Act provides for a limited abrogation of state sovereign immunity in Georgia. It applies to act...
In 2003, the Supreme Court created a presumption that only single-digit ratios of punitive damages t...
A contemporary theory of punitive damages must answer two questions: (1) what place, if any, do puni...
U.S. Supreme Court Tort Reform: Limiting State Power to Articulate and Develop Its Own Tort Law–Defa...
The Act amends O.C.G.A. 10-1-255 relating to civil actions for unlawful practices in the marketing o...
The Act immunizes licensed physicians from civil liability for acts or omissions committed while pro...
Punitive damages occupy a special place in the U.S. legal system. Courts award them in very few case...
Since the 1980s, tort damages for pain and suffering have excited hue and cry. Twenty-three states c...
The limitations on a punitive damage award depend on the conception of punitive damages. Is it a pri...
The Act authorizes the owner of personal property to bring a civil action, subsequent to a written d...
Critics complain that punitive damages often serve no good purpose. Whatever the merit of this charg...
The Act requires certain disclosures to structured settlement sellers, including discount rates, fee...
Over the last fifteen years, the Supreme Court has formulated new constitutional principles to const...
In response to concerns that jury awards in tort cases are excessive and unpredictable, nearly every...
Primarily through tort law the courts compensate those injured by others. Secondary aspects of our w...
The Act provides for a limited abrogation of state sovereign immunity in Georgia. It applies to act...
In 2003, the Supreme Court created a presumption that only single-digit ratios of punitive damages t...
A contemporary theory of punitive damages must answer two questions: (1) what place, if any, do puni...
U.S. Supreme Court Tort Reform: Limiting State Power to Articulate and Develop Its Own Tort Law–Defa...
The Act amends O.C.G.A. 10-1-255 relating to civil actions for unlawful practices in the marketing o...
The Act immunizes licensed physicians from civil liability for acts or omissions committed while pro...
Punitive damages occupy a special place in the U.S. legal system. Courts award them in very few case...
Since the 1980s, tort damages for pain and suffering have excited hue and cry. Twenty-three states c...