Insurance
Oct. 5, 2004
Court May Use 'Boeken' for Message in Mass Tort Cases
The beat goes on with punitive damages in the wake of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003) (see, e.g., a punitive-damages "award of more than four times the amount of compensatory damages might be close to the line of constitutional impropriety").
Rex Heeseman
JAMS
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Stanford Univ Law School
Rex Heeseman retired from the Los Angeles Count Superior Court bench in 2014. He is at JAMS, Los Angeles. Besides speaking at various MCLE programs, he co-authors The Rutter Group's practice guide on "Insurance Litigation." From 2002 to 2015, he was an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School.
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