Citing a lack of evidence and recent limits on punitive damages, a California court of appeal panel filleted an $18.5 million award in a psychiatric disability case against McKesson and a supervisor on Tuesday. The court halved the compensatory award and slashed the punitive damages award, leaving a total of about $4.1 million. The former customer service agent had alleged discrimination and harassment after she was fired for missing work; the appellate court found the harassment verdict unsupported.
December 28, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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Citing a lack of evidence and recent limits on punitive damages, a court of appeal panel filleted an $18.5 million award in a psychiatric disability case against McKesson Corp. and a supervisor on Tuesday.
The appeals court halved the compensatory award, and said that the jury’s $15 million award of punitive damages had to be reduced to about $2 million, saying that was about as much as the U.S. Constitution will allow under recent precedents.
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