After an accident, you likely already know that you are entitled to compensatory damages. These are damages intended to compensate you for your financial and intangible losses, such as medical bills, ...

Punitive damages continue to generate headlines and heated debate across the country. As New York practitioners are well aware, the U.S. Supreme Court has in recent years addressed the due process ...

This column continues last week's discussion of our doctor shortage and suggests tougher steps some trial lawyers might oppose. We should change the standard of proof required to get punitive damage.

This article was first published by New Mexico In Depth. Read more at https://nmindepth.com. Responding to doctors’ concerns that New Mexico’s malpractice system is making it hard to practice medicine ...

Plaintiffs could more easily win punitive damages under a General Assembly bill that seeks to increase education funding. The bill would lower the standard for punitive damages, requiring plaintiffs ...

During this year’s legislative session, there has been discussion about “punitive damages.” As a consumer protection lawyer who helps people defrauded by big corporations, I know the proposed changes ...

MORRISTOWN — Facing potentially devastating punitive damages on top of a landmark $5 million verdict, the headmaster of the exclusive Delbarton School testified that another large monetary award ...