Cartwright v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

How courts have described this case

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

• “it is the jury which must first determine whether punitive damages are recoverable ... To hold that the district court has complete and unbridled discretion to ignore the jury’s award would mean that the function assigned to the jury in this process is meaningless”
• $6,127,845 jury verdict against company reinstated by State Supreme Court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).