Hutchison Ex Rel. Hutchison v. Luddy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant’s actions must have been intentional, malicious, or reckless to merit punitive damages
• noting that punitive damages are awarded for outrageous conduct “because of the defendant’s evil motive or his reckless indifference to the rights of others”
• noting that punitive damages are awarded for outrageous conduct “because of the defendant’s evil motive or his reckless indifference to the rights of others”
• explaining that punitive damages may be awarded where conduct is “outrageous” because of “reckless indifference to the rights of others[,]” and the conduct at issue was “intentional, reckless or malicious”
• explaining that punitive damages are an extraordinary remedy and are only proper “where the defendant’s actions are so outrageous as to demonstrate willful, wanton or reckless conduct.”
• finding that punitive damages may be appropriately awarded only when the plaintiff has established that the defendant has acted in a fashion “so outrageous as to demonstrate willful, wanton or reckless conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).