Damages – Remittitur – Punitive damages
Where a jury awarded a plaintiff $6,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages on a retaliation claim against the defendant Office of the Commissioner of Probation, a remittitur is...
View ArticleEmployment – Harassment – Retaliation – Punitive damages
Where a jury, having found for the plaintiff on claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, awarded her $70,000 in compensatory damages and $375,000 in punitive damages, the compensatory award should...
View ArticleEmployment – Punitive damages – Retaliation
Where a Superior Court jury, finding that the defendant employer did not discriminate against the plaintiff assistant chief probation officer but that it did retaliate against her, awarded the...
View ArticleProducts liability – Punitive damages – Slide
Where a jury, finding gross negligence on the part of the defendant seller of a swimming pool slide, awarded the plaintiff compensatory damages in the amount of $2,640,000 and awarded punitive damages...
View ArticleSJC upholds $18M punitive verdict
The Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed a jury award of $2,640,000 in compensatory damages and $18 million in punitive damages to a plaintiff whose wife died after the collapse of a slide into a...
View ArticleToys R Us ruling called a ‘primer’ on punitives
The Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling upholding a wrongful death verdict and $18 million punitive damages award against Toys R Us in a case involving a defective swimming pool slide serves as a virtual...
View ArticleEmployment – G.L.c. 151B – Punitive damages – Counsel fees
Where a jury, having found for the plaintiff on a G.L.c. 151B retaliation claim, awarded her no compensatory damages but $1.1 million in punitive damages, the trial judge acted correctly in vacating...
View ArticleNegligence – Boom lift – Punitive damages
Where the widow of a construction worker who was killed when a boom lift tipped over was awarded $3,692,657.40 in compensatory damages against the defendant lessor and the codefendant manufacturer,...
View ArticleProducts liability – Punitive damages – G.L.c. 93A
Where a plaintiff who was harmed while using a ladder made by the defendant has alleged negligent failure to warn, negligent design breach of the implied warranty of merchantability and a violation of...
View ArticleLabor – Whistleblower – Punitive damages
Where a railroad was ordered to pay the statutory maximum of $250,000 in punitive damages, plus $10,000 in damages for emotional distress, in a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower retaliation...
View ArticleDamages – Remittitur – Punitive damages
Where a jury awarded a plaintiff $6,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages on a retaliation claim against the defendant Office of the Commissioner of Probation, a remittitur is...
View ArticleEmployment – Harassment – Retaliation – Punitive damages
Where a jury, having found for the plaintiff on claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, awarded her $70,000 in compensatory damages and $375,000 in punitive damages, the compensatory award should...
View ArticleEmployment – Punitive damages – Retaliation
Where a Superior Court jury, finding that the defendant employer did not discriminate against the plaintiff assistant chief probation officer but that it did retaliate against her, awarded the...
View ArticleProducts liability – Punitive damages – Slide
Where a jury, finding gross negligence on the part of the defendant seller of a swimming pool slide, awarded the plaintiff compensatory damages in the amount of $2,640,000 and awarded punitive damages...
View ArticleSJC upholds $18M punitive verdict
The Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed a jury award of $2,640,000 in compensatory damages and $18 million in punitive damages to a plaintiff whose wife died after the collapse of a slide into a...
View ArticleToys R Us ruling called a ‘primer’ on punitives
The Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling upholding a wrongful death verdict and $18 million punitive damages award against Toys R Us in a case involving a defective swimming pool slide serves as a virtual...
View ArticleEmployment – G.L.c. 151B – Punitive damages – Counsel fees
Where a jury, having found for the plaintiff on a G.L.c. 151B retaliation claim, awarded her no compensatory damages but $1.1 million in punitive damages, the trial judge acted correctly in vacating...
View ArticleNegligence – Boom lift – Punitive damages
Where the widow of a construction worker who was killed when a boom lift tipped over was awarded $3,692,657.40 in compensatory damages against the defendant lessor and the codefendant manufacturer,...
View ArticleProducts liability – Punitive damages – G.L.c. 93A
Where a plaintiff who was harmed while using a ladder made by the defendant has alleged negligent failure to warn, negligent design breach of the implied warranty of merchantability and a violation of...
View ArticleLabor – Whistleblower – Punitive damages
Where a railroad was ordered to pay the statutory maximum of $250,000 in punitive damages, plus $10,000 in damages for emotional distress, in a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower retaliation...
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