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Example sentences for: punitive

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Potential plaintiffs must grant businesses 90 days for repairs before suing and will be able to collect only limited punitive damages.
The Wall Street Journal front-page news box and the LAT front report that a California jury has ordered the insurance company Aetna to pay $116 million in punitive damages for refusing to cover an experimental treatment for a patient who later died.
The LAT has a top front-page story about a Florida court's unprecedented award of punitive damages (as part of a $1 million judgement) to survivors of a dead smoker who had sued the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co.
Next comes a short hearing in which the jury will decide the punitive damages.
Even during last spring's spike in prices, no Democrat advocated price controls or punitive taxes on Big Oil.