Punitive Damages

Definition: Punitive Damages

Punitive Damages

Noun

1. (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct).

Specialty Definition: Punitive damages

Punitive damages are damages awarded to a successful plaintiff in a civil action, over and above the amount of compensatory damages, to:

punish the conduct of the civil defendant;
deter the civil defendant from committing the invidious act again; and
deter others from doing the same thing.

Generally, punitive damages are only awarded for egregiously invidious and wilful actions, not for mere carelessness or negligence.

Commercial Usage: Punitive Damages

Domain	Title
Books	Media Insurance: Protecting Against High Judgements, Punitive Damages, and Defense Costs (reference) Punitive Damages in Bad Faith Cases (reference) Punitive Damages Und Deutsches Schadensersatzrecht (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: Punitive Damages

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Costa Rica	In response to a suit, the Constitutional Court found that the police response violated participants' free speech rights and directed the Government to pay punitive damages to the plaintiffs. (references)
Human Rights	Tunisia	The police officer was sentenced in April to 10 years in prison and ordered, along with the Ministry of Interior, to pay material and punitive damages to Azouzi's family. (references)
Political Economy	JAPAN	Effective January 2001, Japan raised the level of punitive damages for software piracy from 3 million yen to 100 million yen. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Punitive Damages

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Modern Translation: Punitive Damages

Language		Translations for "punitive damages"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		dommages-intérêts secondaires, dommages-intérêts punitifs. (various references)

Pig Latin		unitivepay amagesday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Punitive Damages

Misspellings
	"Punitive Damages" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: puntive damages. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Punitive Damages

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-g-i-i-m-n-p-s-t-u-v"
	-4 letters: designative, misadapting.
	-5 letters: advisement, deaminates, diapausing, magnetised, magnitudes, mediastina, mispainted, negativism, stampeding, timesaving.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
punitive damages	68
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Punitive Damages

Definition: Punitive Damages