Punitive damages are awarded, then, in egregious cases â not your run-of-the-mill, âoops I was twiddling the radio dial when I hit youâ cases. Punitive damages have been argued and permitted in DUI cases. However, according to the lawyers in the Caskey case, juries have never considered an award of punitive damages in a âTextingâ case. This is what is meant by the phrase âcase of first impression.â The other thing about punitive damages is that they are generally NOT covered by insurance. You buy insurance to protect you if you are ânegligentâ or careless.
Tennessee: Tennessee, constituent state of the United States of America. It is located in the upper South of the eastern United States and became the 16th state of the Union in 1796. The geography of Tennessee is unique.
Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states of the USA only after world war two. What was their sovereign status before that? ALASKA was a Russian colony from 1744 until the USA bought it in 1867 for $7,200,000. It was made a state in 1959. Hawaii was a kingdom until 1893 and became a republic in 1894. It then ceded itself to the USA in 1898 and became a state in 1959. Kyra Ings, Devizes, Wiltshire (dmi@praxis.co.uk) IMMEDIATELY before Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959, it was a Territory of the US.