Action for punitive damages
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case The Estate of Richard A. Mayer, and Spangler, Jennings & Dougherty v. Lax, Inc., and David Lasco (2013)
Most recently applied in Rachel Staggs v. Corena Buxbaum (June 2016)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.19
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 3. It is not a defense to an action for punitive damages that the defendant is subject to criminal prosecution for the act or omission that gave rise to the civil action. However, a person may not recover both:
(1) punitive damages; and
(2) the amounts provided for under section 1 or 1.5 of this chapter.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.