File Code: Tort Reform
Prior Year Introduction As: SB 187/95 - JPR
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 1448
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Ferguson
- Entitled:
-
Punitive Damages - Limitation
Providing that a punitive damages award may not exceed four times the
compensatory damages award, except in certain cases; providing that a
jury may not be informed of this limitation; requiring a court to
reduce a punitive damage award that exceeds this limitation to an
amount that conforms with the limitation; and providing that this
limitation may not be construed as affecting a court's authority to
enter a remittitur or order a new trial.
Senate Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/18
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COURTS - GENERAL
- DAMAGES
- JURIES -see also- GRAND JURY
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
11-111
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available
