is a liquidated sum for actual harm and/or an incentive for aggrieved parties to act as private attorneys general. Universal Underwriters, 401 F.3d at 881. Also, that Congress elected to make treble damages available — separate from fixed damages — strongly suggests that the fixed statutory damages serve additional goals other than deterrence and punishment. Universal Underwriters, 401 F.3d at 881. Moreover, interpreting the TCPA’s fixed statutory remedy as penal in nature is counter to the clear admonition of Missouri law to interpret insurance contracts liberally in favor of the insured, to furnish, rather than to exclude, coverage. Lou Fusz, 300 F.Supp.2d at 894. The TCPA is a remedial statute intended to address misdeeds suffered by individuals. See Terra Nova, 869 N.E.2d at 575 (<HOLDING>); see also Prime TV, 223 F.Supp.2d at 750
holding tcpa is remedial statute and that statutory damages are not punitive damages holding that treble damages awarded under the civil theft statute are remedial not punitive holding a court may not award punitive damages holding that punitive damages are not fines holding that plaintiff could recover both treble damages under state racketeering statute and punitive damages under fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims because the statute provided that actions brought under it are remedial and not punitive and that civil remedies provided under it are supplemental and not mutually exclusive