Bissanti Design/Build Group v. McClay

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Massachusetts law, “punitive damages cannot be fixed without an evidentiary hearing to determine how egregious was the conduct of the defendant”
• hearing required when credibility impacted amount of damages, not enforcement of default itself
• where claims are not for liquidated amount, plaintiff is required to establish extent of its damages
• where claims are not for liquidated amount, plaintiff is required to establish extent of its damages
• at assessment hearing after default, defendants may show that plaintiff’s work was faulty and worth less than alleged
• “a default does not concede the amount of damages”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).