In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Mathewson

How courts have described this case

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• noting that allowing insurance coverage for punitive damage awards would conflict with “the rule permitting the jury to consider defendant’s financial standing in fixing the amount of punitive damages”
• “the purpose of punitive damages ... is to punish and to deter others from acting similarly”
• “the issues before us turn not on any affirmed findings of fact but solely on public policy and the interpretation of statutes, both of which are matters of law”
• insurance coverage in § 1983 case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).