The Pennsylvania Superior Court will not disturb a lower court’s ruling that awarded compensatory damages but denied punitive damages to a plaintiff whose former co-owners in a public utility consulting firm fired him and bought out his membership share for a fraction of its value.
In Saltzer v. Rolka, a three-judge panel of the Superior Court declined to second guess Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas Judge Edward Guido’s ruling that plaintiff Matthew Saltzer’s former co-owners substantially undervalued his membership share after they terminated him but still should not be hit with punitives, despite what the judge called “a very close call.”
