LEGAL NUGGETS⚖️
PUNITIVE DAMAGES
¶ Punitive damages are also called “exemplary damages, ” They are exceptional damages ordered by a court against a defendant where the act or
an omission that caused the suit was of a particularly heinous, malicious or high-handed nature
¶ In this, they constitute an
an exception to the general common law rule that damages are designed to compensate the injured,
not to punish the wrongdoer. Punitive damages are usually imposed to make an example of the negligent party to deter others from behaving in the same fashion or committing similar wrongful behavior.
¶ Punitive damage may only be employed in circumstances
where the conduct giving the cause for complaint is of such nature that it merits punishment.
FROM THE DIRECTORATE OF LITIGATION AND RESEARCH.
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