Westray v. Wright

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• holding that there was insufficient evidence to support the jury’s punitive damages award based on wrongful hiring where the driver was qualified under the company’s exceptionally strict standards
• reversing a jury award of punitive damages because the defendant truck driver’s conduct, looking away for 10 seconds while approaching the intersection and not noticing a red light, did not support a jury award of punitive damages
• clearly negligent decision to look away from the road for five to ten seconds insufficient to mandate punitive damages
• semi-truck driver who “looked down at the open map on the seat next to him to verify driving directions” for a matter of seconds “was clearly negligent in the operation of his vehicle,” but was not liable for punitive damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).