| He also claimed damages for wrongful dismissal, mental distress and punitive damages. |
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| There might be punitive damages as well as reimbursement of litigation costs and legal fees. |
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| What Mrs. Alexander is really saying is that trial attorneys won't make as much money if punitive damages are capped. |
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| The Law Commission emphasised that an award of punitive damages should be seen as a remedy of last resort. |
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| And, if so, what should the dollar amount for the pool of punitive damages be? |
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| The bailout bill limits the amount of damages the victims can collect, by forbidding any award of punitive damages against the airlines. |
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| The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages. |
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| Wicke sought payment of overtime wages, as well as damages for breach of contract and punitive damages. |
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| It hit our industry with punitive damages on policy directed by the provinces, where even the federal government has no jurisdiction or role. |
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| The plaintiff is also seeking punitive damages and damages for troubles and inconveniences. |
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| This agreement allows the Americans to apply punitive damages against Canadian companies and provinces at their own discretion. |
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| This class action recourses for the reimbursement of charges and punitive damages will be exercised in the district of Montréal. |
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| He proposes that the reference to punitive sanctions should be eliminated and that it should be replaced by punitive damages. |
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| The plaintiff claims damages including damages for loss of remuneration, damages for mental distress and exemplary, aggravated and punitive damages. |
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| He says that if he wins, all money from punitive damages and any award for breach of academic freedom will go into a trust fund for academic freedom. |
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| Even if they succeed, families can win only actual and not punitive damages from the federal government. |
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| The very public policy reason insurers do not insure against punitive damages, is that we don't want insurance to cover the perpetrators of intentional bad acts. |
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| In American tort law, recklessness of the tortfeasor can cause the Plaintiff to be entitled to punitive damages. |
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| The court said that judges will have to be vigilant in ensuring that jurors consider harm to others only in assessing reprehensibility, not in deciding the level of punitive damages. |
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| In the end, the Court of Appeal upheld the punitive damages awarded against Merrill Lynch but greatly reduced the compensatory damages awarded against Merrill Lynch and the individual former employees. |
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| The Irish Group queries the sense of a Resolution which removes the reference to punitive damages while it bears a title which clearly indicates that it is to deal with this subject. |
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| Her delegation agreed with the Secretary-General that the awarding of exemplary and punitive damages would be improper in light of the nature and purposes of the United Nations. |
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| This includes direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages and attorneys' fees arising from your access to, or use of, the Site. |
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| A majority of the arbitration board concluded that the collective agreement did not give the board jurisdiction to award aggravated or punitive damages. |
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| As a result, ICN claimed general and punitive damages against Axcan, Rowell and Mr. Gosselin, for conspiracy, or in the alternative, for inducing breach of contract. |
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| A judgment against an insurer requiring him to indemnify an insured against an award of punitive damages is not itself an award of punitive damages. |
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| In a separate trial that took place in Alabama in February 2009, the jury rendered a verdict against a Sandoz subsidiary and awarded compensatory damages of USD 28 million and punitive damages of USD 50 million. |
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| Consequently, the eventual decision is not likely to affect punitive damages in nonmaritime cases. |
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| Juries may not, however, use punitive damages to punish a defendant directly for harms that the defendant visited on nonparties. |
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| The Appeals Tribunal may not award exemplary or punitive damages. |
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| For example, in Alabama, only punitive damages are available in cases brought under the state's wrongful death statute. |
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| The court held that the revised code sections limiting noneconomic and punitive damages in tort actions were facially constitutional. |
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| Although punitive damages were found to be excludible in certain instances, their questionableness has certainly been on the mind of Congress for some time. |
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| If a shipowner's breach of its obligation to provide maintenance and cure is willful and wanton, the shipowner may be subject to punitive damages. |
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| Punitive damages may have little statutory guidance, but juries are similarly unguided when they calculate pain and suffering damages, which are compensatory. |
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| Punitive damages are relatively uncommon in contractual cases versus tort cases. |
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