Masaki v. General Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that punitive damages “are awarded only when the egregious nature of the defendant’s conduct makes such a remedy appropriate”
• holding that punitive damages \are awarded only when the egregious nature of the defendant's conduct makes such a remedy appropriate\
• recognizing common-law claim by parent for loss or impairment of consortium of child in a nonfatal injury case
• explaining that “no meaningful distinction can be drawn between death and severe injury where the effect on consortium is concerned”
• explaining that “[l]oss of filial consortium is a recognized cause of action in Hawaii under our wrongful death statute, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS
• indicating that the cases in Hawaii “clearly reflect the dual purposes of punitive damages as punishing the defendant for aggravated misconduct and deterring the defendant and others from engaging in like conduct in the future”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).