Purpose of Punitive Damages

If you wanted to know the purpose behind punitive damages, this below snippet does a quality job explaining the purpose. When reading this snippet, pay special attention to the last paragraph in red emphasizing that the trial court’s job is NOT to weigh evidence or evaluate witness credibility in the punitive damages proffer. The punitive damages proffer just has to support a reasonable basis without the evaluation of credibility or evidence. When you consider that, consider what your thoughts are on this because without this evaluation, it makes creating that reasonable basis to support a punitive damages proffer quite a...