Downey Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Ohio Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• upholding punitive damages equal to 32 times the award of compensatory damages
• “[T]he Eighth Amendment applies only to criminal actions, not to purely civil penalties, as involved here.”
• insurer to give “at least as much consideration to the welfare of its insured as it give’s to its own interests”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).