Sec. 2. Before a person may recover punitive damages in any civil action, that person must establish, by clear and convincing evidence, all of the facts that are relied upon by that person to support the recovery of punitive damages.
Ind. Code § 34-51-3-2
Necessity of evidence of facts
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Wohlwend v. Edwards (2003)
Most recently applied in Rachel Staggs v. Corena Buxbaum (June 2016)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.47.
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