Punitive Damages

Punitive Damages
Title Punitive Damages PDF eBook
Author Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 299
Release 2008-12-19
Genre Law
ISBN 0226780163

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Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered by juries in civil trials. Probably the most extraordinary example is the July 2000 award of $144.8 billion in the Florida class action lawsuit brought against cigarette manufacturers. Or consider two recent verdicts against the auto manufacturer BMW in Alabama. In identical cases, argued in the same court before the same judge, one jury awarded $4 million in punitive damages, while the other awarded no punitive damages at all. In cases involving accidents, civil rights, and the environment, multimillion-dollar punitive awards have been a subject of intense controversy. But how do juries actually make decisions about punitive damages? To find out, the authors-experts in psychology, economics, and the law-present the results of controlled experiments with more than 600 mock juries involving the responses of more than 8,000 jury-eligible citizens. Although juries tended to agree in their moral judgments about the defendant's conduct, they rendered erratic and unpredictable dollar awards. The experiments also showed that instead of moderating juror verdicts, the process of jury deliberation produced a striking "severity shift" toward ever-higher awards. Jurors also tended to ignore instructions from the judges; were influenced by whatever amount the plaintiff happened to request; showed "hindsight bias," believing that what happened should have been foreseen; and penalized corporations that had based their decisions on careful cost-benefit analyses. While judges made many of the same errors, they performed better in some areas, suggesting that judges (or other specialists) may be better equipped than juries to decide punitive damages. Using a wealth of new experimental data, and offering a host of provocative findings, this book documents a wide range of systematic biases in jury behavior. It will be indispensable for anyone interested not only in punitive damages, but also jury behavior, psychology, and how people think about punishment.

Punitive Damages: Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives

Punitive Damages: Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives
Title Punitive Damages: Common Law and Civil Law Perspectives PDF eBook
Author Helmut Koziol
Publisher Springer
Pages 0
Release 2011-11-30
Genre Law
ISBN 9783709109649

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With the growing literature on the subject of punitive damages, the consensus is that it seems worthwhile and even necessary to discuss, thoroughly and on a comparative basis, the nature, role and suitability of such damages in tort law and private law in general. This book contains reports from selected jurisdictions that explicitly allow the award of punitive damages as well as from jurisdictions which purport (sometimes emphatically) to deny their existence (although a number covertly incorporate such damages into the framework of their tort systems). It benefits from an economic analysis of punitive damages, a report from a private international law perspective, one on their insurability and one on aggravated damages. The book’s comparative report and conclusion critically evaluates the material in the above reports and advances a thorough analysis of the nature of punitive damages, the cases for and against them, and their suitability in the field of tort law. Alternative remedies in private and criminal law are also considered. The publication will appeal to students, academics, practitioners, judges, policy makers and those in the insurance industry.

Punitive Damages

Punitive Damages
Title Punitive Damages PDF eBook
Author American Bar Association. Special Committee on Punitive Damages
Publisher
Pages 116
Release 1986
Genre Damages
ISBN

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Punitive Damages

Punitive Damages
Title Punitive Damages PDF eBook
Author Linda L. Schlueter
Publisher
Pages
Release 2010
Genre Exemplary damages
ISBN 9781579113216

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Punitive Damages

Punitive Damages
Title Punitive Damages PDF eBook
Author Linda L. Schlueter
Publisher MICHIE
Pages 712
Release 1989
Genre Law
ISBN

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The Power of Punitive Damages

The Power of Punitive Damages
Title The Power of Punitive Damages PDF eBook
Author Lotte Meurkens
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Exemplary damages
ISBN 9781780680477

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"In November 2010, the Ius Commune Research School devoted the Liability and Insurance workshop on its annual conference to the "Power of Punitive Damages" "--Back cover.

Punitive Damages and Business Torts

Punitive Damages and Business Torts
Title Punitive Damages and Business Torts PDF eBook
Author Thomas J. Collin
Publisher American Bar Association
Pages 224
Release 1998
Genre Law
ISBN 9781570736179

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