Rocanova v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that punitive damages are available where a fraud \evince[es] a high degree of moral turpitude and demonstrate[es] such wanton dishonesty as to imply a criminal indifference to civil obligations\
• providing that “[a] demand for punitive damages is parasitic and possesses no viability absent its attachment to a substantive cause of action such as fraud.”
• providing that “[a] demand for punitive damages is parasitic and possesses no viability absent its attachment to a substantive cause of action such as fraud.”
• holding “[a] demand or request for punitive damages is parasitic and possesses no viability absent its attachment to a substantive cause of action…” (citations omitted)
• characterizing substantive standard for punitive damages in breach of contract case as “strict” but not discussing evidentiary standard
• holding “[p]unitive damages are not recoverable for an ordinary breach of contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).