Campbell v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that financial misconduct by an insurer that targeted a financially and emotionally vulnerable family warranted punitive damages at a 9:1 ratio
• explaining that, in a case of “conduct of unremarkable reprehensibility” coupled with “a sizeable compensatory damages award,” a “1-to-1 ratio between compensatory and punitive damages” may be appropriate
• upholding $9,018,780.75 in punitive damages against only a $10,000 civil penalty for the conduct at issue
• awarding punitive damages of $9,018,780.75 and compensatory damages of $1 million
• awarding punitive damages of $9,018,780.75 and compensatory damages of $1 million
• “[T]he quest to reliably position any misconduct within the ranks of criminal or civil wrongdoing based on penalties affixed by the legislature can be quixotic.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).