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Wisconsin May Cap Punitive Damages At $200,000

By Justinian Lane

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Continuing the ?2011 will be a bad year for civil justice? theme:

The Senate judiciary committee voted 3-2 on Friday to cap punitive damages at $200,000 or twice the amount of compensatory damages, whichever is greater. Current state law does not lay out any caps on punitive damages.

Source: Wis. GOP caps punitive damages in tort reform bill - WBAY-TV Green Bay-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin News

Capping punitive damages at $200k will only encourage corporations to sell profitable but defective products.  If it weren?t for punitive damage awards well in excess of $200k, Johns Manville might still be pumping out asbestos products.

I don?t understand Republican ideology.  On one hand, most of them support the death penalty.  But on the other hand, they don?t like punitive damages.  How can you rationalize putting a man to death for committing a crime, but not allowing the family of his victims to take more than $200k?

Full post as published by TortDeform.com on January 14, 2011 (boomark / email).

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