Corporate & Securities Law

Catastrophe Model Companies Estimate Damages, Provide Basis to Evaluate Themselves.
Companies marketing Computer Models of Catastrophes have now opened a new line of potential profit for themselves. They have become estimators. Their estimates of Catastrophe Claims (not including Uninsured Damages) from Hurricane Ike in Texas vary as widely as the...

Retributive Damages: How much and to whom
In earlier posts gathered here, I laid out the Introduction and some relevant background regarding punitive damages law, recent scholarship, and retributive justice. Yesterday's post articulated some of the basic structure for retributive damages, focusing on what misconduct should be the subject of retributive damages and whether non-victims of wrongdoing should be empowered to bring claims for retributive damages (and if so, under what restrictions)...

Retributive Damages: Some Constitutional Analysis
In earlier posts gathered here, I laid out the Introduction and some relevant background regarding punitive damages law, recent scholarship, and retributive justice. Subsequent posts addressed: which misconduct should be the subject of retributive damages and whether non-victims of wrongdoing should be empowered to bring claims for retributive damages (and if so, under what restrictions); how to bring rationality and fairness to determining the amount of retributive damages; and how to allocate the retributive damages among the state, lawyer and plaintiff...

Retributive Damages: The Case for Partial Outsourcing of Retributive Justice to the Tort System
In earlier posts gathered here, I laid out the Introduction and some relevant background regarding punitive damages law, recent scholarship, and retributive justice. Subsequent posts addressed: which misconduct should be the subject of retributive damages and whether non-victims of wrongdoing should be empowered to bring claims for retributive damages (and if so, under what restrictions); how to bring rationality and fairness to determining the amount of retributive damages; and how to allocate the retributive damages among the state, lawyer and plaintiff...

Damages Trends
Contrary to propaganda, patent damages are not burgeoning; rather, remaining fairly constant. On average, awarded damages in software cases are less than for mining patents, and almost a third less than telecom patent cases...

Appeal dismissed where there was still a claim for punitive damages pending
In Horn v. Brown, [Ms. 1061656] (Ala. Aug. 22, 2008), the Alabama Supreme Court dismissed an appeal as being from a non-final judgment where there remained a pending claim for punitive damages...