Actos Ruling Sets Up Appellate Clash Over Punitives Ceiling

By Sindhu Sundar ( October 28, 2014, 8:24 PM EDT) -- A Louisiana federal judge's ruling slashing a $9 billion Actos bladder cancer award to $37 million highlights an ambiguity on upper limits for punitive damages that attorneys say will spur the Fifth Circuit and maybe even the U. S. Supreme Court to address the issue more directly. . . .

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