A Suffolk Superior Court (Boston) jury awarded $71 million in compensatory damages and $81 million in punitive damages, in a wrongful death case decided…
Shortly after the deadly blast that killed 29 coal miners at Massey Energy Co. facility in West Virginia, the company's board met by phone and agreed…
Ford Motor Company and the family of Brian Cole settled the wrongful death/product liability case after the huge jury verdict was awarded at trial. The…
Lawyers for the families of the two young Hungarian tourists who died after the collision between the duck-boat and a garbage barge have filed suit in…
Punitive damages may be awarded in a variety of legal causes, including wrongful death cases. The purpose of punitive damages is to punish the defendant,…
