Flyer's Body Shop Profit Sharing Plan v. Ticor Title Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• describing that the fees at issue were “attorney fees incurred in a separate action by plaintiff” and holding “that it is improper to award attorney fees as damages for the prosecution of a separate tort which is unrelated to the defendant's negligent conduct”
• “Punitive damages are appropriate ... only when the tortious conduct rises to levels of extreme indifference to the plaintiffs rights, a level which decent citizens should not have to tolerate.”
• “[A] breach of a fiduciary duty alone without malice, fraud or oppression does not permit an award of punitive damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).