Awarding Punitive Damages Against Corporation in Your Lake Worth, Florida Car Accident Case

Schropp v. Crown Eurocars, Inc. , is the premiere case cited by West Palm Beach car accident attorneys when seeking punitive damages against a corporation in a personal injury case with serious bodily injury.  Punitive damages are damages awarded to a car accident victim to punish the defendant.  Punitive damages are capless for intentional torts such as battery or where a person is injured by a defendant that is intoxicated or otherwise under the influence.  Punitive damages are also capless in injury cases involving abuse of children or the elderly.

There are two instances in which a corporation may be held liable for punitive damages in your Palm Beach County car crash case.  The first is direct liability.  Direct liability means that a managing agent of the corporation did soemthing himself/herself that caused the injury such as the president of the company got drunk and hit the victim while driving the company car on company time.  The second instance invloves vicarious liability.  Vicarious liability is when there was wrongful conduct on the part of an employee and there was some fault on the part of the employer which could foreseeably contribute to the plaintiff's injuries.