Pagragan v. Harmeyer

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• upholding separate awards of punitive damages in the amount of $100 against the employee and $155,000 against the employer, where the employer was only vicariously liable.
• employer liable for punitive damages based on its truck driver's reckless conduct in overloading truck and driving at high speeds when he knew that he could not properly control it
• punitive damages-were appropriate against employer who allowed a truck to go out on the road that was unable to properly distrib.ute the weight of its load due to a broken loading rack

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