McCarter & English sought to recover punitive damages from a former client for allegedly refusing to pay legal fees. The ...

Personal injury law has shaped modern litigation and policy, largely through landmark cases that have set key legal ...

Something that we see over and over again in mock trials has now occurred in an actual trial. A recent jury in Allegheny ...

The foreperson in the CNN defamation trial said the jury was sending a message that the general public is 'fed up with fake ...

The tort system is vital in that sense ... Three hundred andthirty-five punitive damage cases have been brought. MR. TURLEY: That's for -- no, that's for a 25-year period. MR. HOROWITZ: No ...

Everyone goes to the hospital expecting to feel better, but there are no guarantees that it will happen. Not getting the ...

In 2023, a jury awarded the family of a man who died from untreated pneumonia in the Ottawa County Jail $33 million.

The jury then went on to make a determination on punitive damages, despite the verdict ... that adopts the baseless claims of the mass tort plaintiffs’ bar,” he said in a statement.

Despite this finding, the jury proceeded to award punitive damages, contrary to the verdict ... ongoing litigation trends in mass tort cases demand proactive measures to address potential ...

Even though state law says under the Idaho Tort Claims Act that governmental ... does allow an award of punitive damages against state employees in cases involving constitutional actions.