Friday, April 10th, 2009
Alaska Supreme Court: Verdict, Not Judgment or Later Settlement, Establishes State’s Share of Punitive Damages
On remand from an earlier appeal, an employee and his employer settled a retaliatory discharge claim, without allocation between compensatory and punitive damages. The employee then argued that the State (which had intervened) had no right to a 50 % share of any imputed punitive damages, contending that the State’s interest in punitives under AS […]