Definition of sort for Students. 1  1 : a group of persons or things that have something in common : kind all sorts of people. 2  2 : person 1, individual He was not a bad sort. 3  3 : general disposition : nature people of an evil sort.
Punitive Damages Definition: Special and highly exceptional damages ordered by a court against a defendant where the act or omission which caused the suit, was of a particularly heinous, malicious or highhanded nature.
See Sandra N. Hurd & Frances E. Zollers, State Punitive Damages Statutes: A. Proposed Alternative, 20 J. LEGIS. 191, 195 (1994). 2. See Grace M. Giesel, The Knowledge of Insurers and the Posture of the Parties. in the Determination of the Insurability of Punitive Damages, 39 KAN.