Doctoroff v. Perez

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• defendant’s action of driving without a valid license was not proximate cause of accident and therefore did not support punitive damages claim
• “Punitive damages may be awarded only in such tort actions in which it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant’s actions showed willful misconduct, malice, fraud, wantonness, oppression, or [an] entire want of care[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).