Hospital Authority v. Jones

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting \notion that punitive damages must necessarily bear some relationship to the actual damages awarded by the jury\
• one purpose of punitive damages is to deter reprehensible conduct by the defendant
• punitive damages award consistent with potential ensuing injuries
• punitive damages award consistent with potential ensuing injuries

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).