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Judge Reduces State Farm's Punitive Damages in Miss. Katrina Case

National News • January 31, 2007
The federal judge overseeing the Katrina claims cases in Mississippi has reduced a recent $2.5 million jury award of punitive damages against State Farm to $1 million. U.S. District Judge L.T. ...

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Subject: Punitive Damages

Posted On: February 1, 2007, 3:45 pm CST
Posted By: Tom
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In case anyone is interested, Judge Senter is merely following the guidelines laid down recently by the U.S. Supreme Court in a case called Campbell, which held that a punitive damage award of more than nine times actual damages should be very rare; and further, the more adequate the compensatory damages are, the lower the punitive damage award should be. As a federal judge, he has no choice but to follow that type of rule. Since the compensatory damages were adequate, the judge could have cut the award even further and probably been upheld on appeal.
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