for production of documents and interrogatories seek relevant material. The Oakes Family Trust is a party to the litigation and, plaintiff/counterdefendants’ assurances aside, defendants/counterelaimants may seek documents showing the creation of the Oakes Family Trust, as request no. 6 does. Moreover, there is no dispute that information concerning the counterdefendants’ finances is relevant regarding the issue of punitive damages. See City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc., 453 U.S. 247, 270, 101 S.Ct. 2748, 2761, 69 L.Ed.2d 616 (1981) (noting that “evidence of a tortfeasor’s wealth is traditionally admissible as a measure of the amount of punitive damages that should be awarded”); Adams v. Murakami, 54 Cal.3d 105, 114-16, 284 Cal.Rptr. 318, 323-25, 813 P.2d 1348,1353-55 (1991) (<HOLDING>); McMann v. Wadler, 189 Cal.App.2d 124, 131, 11
holding a court may not award punitive damages holding what section 76872 requires is that a plaintiff who has pleaded punitive damages must offer a reasonable evidentiary basis for punitive damages and obtain an order authorizing the maintenance of the punitive damage claim as a predicate to conducting discovery of a defendants financial worth holding that punitive damages award against vicariously liable law firm was not excessive in part because the award is proportionate to the law firms financial position holding that evidence of a defendants financial condition is a prerequisite to an award of punitive damages recognizing the financial position of the defendant as a factor in assessing a punitive damages award