Alkire v. First National Bank of Parsons

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff is entitled to a punitive damage award “in actions of tort, where gross fraud, malice, oppression, or wanton, willful, or reckless conduct or criminal indifference to civil obligations affecting the rights of others appear”
• “Our punitive damage jurisprudence includes a two-step paradigm: first, a determination of whether the conduct of an actor toward another person entitles that person to a punitive damage award under Mayer v. Frobe, 40 W.Va. 246, 22 S.E. 58 (1895
• “Every post-trial analysis as to the amount of the punitive damage award should be conducted by the trial court exclusively within the boundaries of Syllabus Points 3 and 4 of Garnes v. Fleming Landfill, Inc., 186 W.Va. 656, 413 S.E.2d 897 (1991
• modifying TXO with regard to punitive damages
• modifying holding as to punitive damages award

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).