Gioe v. Albach Co.

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• concluding that court was not bound by contingency-fee agreement in calculating punitive damages under state statute
• noting that a contingency fee agreement does not limit a court’s diseretion in fashioning a punitive damages award
• holding that trial court erred in directing verdict for defendants on false imprisonment claim where evidence showed that defendants took plaintiff by arm, escorted him to defendants’ office and car, used abusive and threatening language toward plaintiff, and displayed revolver
• noting that “[l]itigation expenses may include . . . [inter alia] attorney’s fees”
• explaining that, “[i]n order to award punitive or exemplary damages, evidence must reveal a reckless indifference to the rights of others or an intentional and wanton violation of those rights”
• confirming the “well established rule” that common law punitive damages are limited to litigation costs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).