Under Section 104 of the tax code, compensatory damages for personal physical injuries or physical sickness are free of tax. For generations, “personal injuries” were enough for an exclusion, but ...

Punitive damages continue to generate headlines and heated debate across the country. As New York practitioners are well aware, the U.S. Supreme Court has in recent years addressed the due process ...

A California jury has ordered Liberty Mutual to pay $103 million to a former employee after finding the insurer violated the ...

Tesla was found partly liable in a wrongful death case involving the electric vehicle company's Autopilot system, with a jury awarding the plaintiffs $200 million in punitive damages plus additional ...

A Miami jury Friday found Tesla partly liable for a 2019 fatal crash involving its Autopilot system, ordering the automaker to pay more than $242 million in damages to the victims. The family of ...

A drug-contaminated iPad sitting in a federal evidence locker may unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages in the Tyler Skaggs civil trial. Here's how.

Punitive damages are on the line in a potential fourth trial between toy manufacturer, MGA Entertainment (MGA) and rapper T.I. and his wife (the Harrises). But it remains to be seen if the trial will ...

In past cases in California, even limited property damages have led to large payouts, including in the O.J. Simpson civil trial.

ATLANTA — A federal jury awarded a man $600,000 in compensatory damages from former Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill in ...

What happens when a plaintiff introduces an entirely new theory just as the curtain is about to fall and the house lights ...