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Supreme Court considers punitive award limits.(News)(State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. vs. Campbell)
Business Insurance, December, 2002
Byline: MARK A. HOFMANN WASHINGTON-Drawing a ``bright line'' that would determine the precise ratio at which punitive damages become unconstitutionally disproportionate to underlying damages could backfire, a Harvard law professor told the Supreme Court last week. Laurence Tribe's warning came as he argued the position of Curtis B.
Campbell and his wife Inez in State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. vs. Campbell. The case stems from the Utah Supreme Court's decision to reinstate a punitive damages award of $145 million against State Farm, which had been ordered to pay $1 million in other damages to the Campbells as result of its handling of a 1981 insurance claim (BI, Dec. 9). The state Supreme Court cited alleged misconduct State Farm had engaged in...
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