Wis. GOP caps punitive damages in tort reform bill
Senate Republicans revised a sweeping civil lawsuit reform bill Friday to cap punitive damages plaintiffs can collect from defendants. Full story
Senate Republicans revised a sweeping civil lawsuit reform bill Friday to cap punitive damages plaintiffs can collect from defendants. Full story
A female smoker who won $8 million against a tobacco company in May has been awarded $4 million in punitive damages and stands to get millions more in interest. Full story
Lead attorneys for people and businesses suing over the Gulf oil spill want a federal judge overseeing their cases to rein in the administrator of the $20 billion victims compensation fund that BP set up. Full story
BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - The third largest U.S. cigarette maker has been ordered to pay $81 million in punitive damages to the estate of a woman who died after a decades of smoking Newport cigarettes. Full story
A tobacco company that allegedly tried to hook black children on cigarettes was ordered Thursday to pay $81 million in punitive damages to the estate and son of a Boston woman who started smoking at age 13, in what an attorney said is one of the largest jury awards of its kind in the United States. Full story
An Oregon jury finds the Boy Scouts of America negligent in a case of repeated sexual abuse by an assistant Scoutmaster in the 1980s and awards the plaintiff $1.4 million. Full story
