The Georgia Court of Appeals has let stand a punitive damages award of $375,000 on top of $30,000 in compensatory damages a jury levied against a man who attacked his disabled father in a dispute over a family partnership and lake house. 

The son, onetime college football linebacker Matthew Fassnacht, was already under a restraining order to stay away from his father and siblings at the time of the attack, which left the older man with multiple injuries including a concussion and a badly-bitten hand, the opinion said.