Entrepreneurship (4th Edition) View more editions Solutions for Chapter 12.1C Problem 1DQ. Problem 1DQ: You Make the Call: Can a Company Patent How It Makes a Peanu...
Proc., Â§ 377.34, punitive damage claims can survive the death of the injured party: but, in most situations, that is true only if the decedent survived the accident, however briefly, or if property of the decedent was damaged or lost before death.Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co.(1981) 119 Cal.App.3d 757, 829.
Rationale for Punitive Damages. Punitive damages are meant to punish and to deter similar wrongful or repugnant conduct. In the car accident example above, suppose that Mark intentionally sideswiped Tomâs car after he thought that Tom cut him off on the highway.