Punitive Damages

The son of a nursing home patient who died after falling down a staircase while strapped in her wheelchair has been awarded $200 million against a Florida facility. 92-year-old Elvira Nunziata was able...

A 12-person jury in Texas has awarded almost $17.7 million to two women injured when the Greyhound bus they were riding flipped over while the driver was making calls on his cell phone....

Carrie Peel was trapped. After spending all her money to purchase a car, she discovered when she went to register the vehicle that she had not received the title. The dealership couldn't help...

A golfer will have to fork over $50,000 after a Kentucky court placed its stamp of approval on a jury's determination that he was the aggressor in a golf course scuffle. I can't...

NEW YORK -- UBS Investment Banktoday announced that the ETRACS team, Dennis Gartman and Mark Fisher will ring the Opening Bell of the NYSE this morning to mark the recent successful launches of...

An Illinois federal jury has awarded a $95 million verdict - including $80 million in punitive damages - to a store worker who claimed she was sexually harassed and assaulted by a manager...

A West Virginia jury awarded the son of a woman who died of severe dehydration after a brief stay in a nursing home $91.5 million, including an $80 million punitive damages award. The...

A 12-person jury in Illinois awarded $89.6 million - $80 million of it in punitives - against four defendants in a suit brought by a former pipefitter suffering from mesothelioma. Charles Gillenwater, 59,...

In the third trial over a rash of hepatitis C infections caused by contaminated vials of the anesthetic propofol at Las Vegas colonoscopy and endoscopy clinics in October, a jury ordered the drug...

MIAMI -- Lewis S. "Mike" Eidson, partner at the nationally recognized trial law firm Colson Hicks Eidson and former president of the American Association for Justice - the world's largest association of trial...

A $28 million award of punitive damages was not unconstitutionally excessive in a product liability case brought by a woman who contracted breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy drugs, a Pennsylvania appellate...

Evidence of Wyeth's marketing campaign for "off-label" Prempro uses was admissible in a product liability case brought by a woman who contracted breast cancer after taking the drug, a Pennsylvania appellate court has...

NEW YORK -- UBS Investment Banktoday announced that ETRACS MLP ETNs were the top two performing exchange-traded notes ("ETNs") or exchange-traded funds ("ETFs") linked to a MLP index in 2011.* MLP ETNs and...

Contract Will Keep Jobs In State of Maryland FAIRFAX, Va. -- SRA International, Inc., a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations, today announced that the National...

- THREE LINKED TO ALERIAN MLP INDEXES - ONE LINKED TO THE WELLS FARGO MLP INDEX - TWO LINKED TO THE WELLS FARGO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INDEX - ONE LINKED TO THE FISHER-GARTMAN...

NEW YORK -- UBS Investment Bank announced today that following the close of business on January 3, 2012, the following changes were made to the UBS Next Generation Internet Index (NYSE ticker symbol...

CHICAGO -- Yesterday's ruling by a provincial appeals court in Ecuador upholding an $18 billion judgment against Chevron Corp. creates headline risk but is not expected to affect the company's credit profile, according...

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Thirty years old in 2012, Board of Education v. Rowley^ remains the Supreme Court's sole pronouncement on the meaning of the duty to provide appropriate education for children with disabilities. This duty is...