Punitive Damages Reform: HB 2210 (1996).

Pennsylvania

Limits punitive damages to 200% of compensatory awards.  Raises the standard of defense in punitive damage cases to “willful or wanton misconduct or reckless indifference to the rights or others.”  Provides for bifurcated trials.

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