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Del. Jury Urged To Award $142M Roundup Punitive Damages

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Attorneys for the family of a South Carolina man whose cancer death was allegedly linked to long working use of Monsanto Corp.'s s Roundup herbicide asked a Delaware Superior Court jury Tuesday for $142 million in punitive damages for the company's purported disregard of the product's toxic risk.

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Can You Get Punitive Damages After a Truck Accident in Orlando?

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According to legal experts, more and more jurisdictions are trying to limit punitive damage awards viewed as over-the-top and as outrageous as the behavior they’re trying to punish.

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Dow Hit With $56M Punitive Damages In Calif. Cleanup Trial

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million in punitive damages for its role manufacturing dry cleaning chemicals that contaminated the city of Modesto's soil and groundwater, according to attorneys for the city. A California jury on Monday found that Dow Chemical owes $56.3

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When are Punitive Damages Available After an accident in Idaho?

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As a general rule larger amounts of compensation tend to be available to victims who have sustained very serious and life changing injuries. .

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Monsanto Pushes Back On Roundup Claims Before Del. Jury

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told a Delaware jury on Monday that attorneys seeking regular and punitive damages based on alleged ties between Roundup exposure and a South Carolina man's fatal cancer want jurors to believe "everybody got it wrong" in finding the product safe. A lawyer for Monsanto Corp.

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Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani for accessing hard drive

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Mac Issac allegedly reached out to Giuliani and mailed Giuliani and Attorney Robert J. ” Biden requests a jury trial and seeks both general and punitive damages. Biden claims Giuliani acquired Biden’s computer data illegally from John Paul Mac Issac, an owner of a Delaware computer repair shop.

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Maryland Truck Accident Attorneys are Instrumental in Comprehensive Damage Recovery

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Economic and non-economic losses, such as lost wages, medical bills, legal fees, property replacement and pain and suffering are addressed in loss valuations with punitive damages in some cases.