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Allstate Hammered with $20 Million Dollar Judgment--But Where Are Our Punitives?

Michael Myers
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Posted by Michael MyersDecember 21, 2006 5:11 PM
Tags: Motor Vehicle Accidents
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A Lake County, Ind., jury awarded $2 million in compensatory damages and $18 million in punitive damages to a man who sued Allstate Insurance Co. The injured man proved to the jury that Allstate acted in bad faith in settling a 1995 car accident.

Unfortunately a similar result would be impossible in Washington. Washington--for a variety of reasons--prides itself on not allowing punitive damages. If there is not a mechanism to punish insurance companies like Allstate, what incentive does it have to correct its notoriously bad behavior?


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