Hanover Insurance Co v. Hayward

How courts have described this case

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• to provide an effective deterrent, punitive damages should bear some relationship to the actual wealth of the defendant
• “The rule applies only to cases where there were guilty pleas or issues actually litigated and finally adjudicated in other criminal proceedings.”
• the amount of the award \should bear such a relationship to the actual wealth of the defendant such that the award will serve to deter future behavior inimical to the well-being of society.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).