Punitive Damages Reform: SB 402 (1987)

Virginia

Limits the award of punitive damages to $350,000.  The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of this statute in Wackenhut Applied Technologies Center Inc. v. Syngetron Protection Systems, No. 91‑1655, November 1992.

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