1.   However, he said that the punitive award to the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson might be more vulnerable.

2.   A judge cut the punitive award in half, and the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the decision.

3.   But local court juries are well known for making big punitive awards against companies that are drastically reduced on appeal or in settlements.

4.   But punitive awards are actually rare.

5.   Cairney has little hope of recovering damages under the breach of contract claim, since punitive awards are usually minimal in those cases.

6.   Critics have complained that the current House language would make it almost impossible to win punitive awards.

7.   Emotions stirred by that belief pushed the punitive awards higher, said Day, who said he did not agree with the racism argument.

8.   Like many a losing litigant, the company will ask the trial judge or higher courts, or both, to set aside the punitive award.

9.   Punitive awards help to police the marketplace and hold sellers to their claims that their products are safe.

10.   The high punitive award was startling because it was plainly out of proportion to the injury, and because the lie involved was not extraordinary.