Automobile Fraud: 6.9.2.3 Statutory Damages Awarded Against Each of Multiple Defendants
Each party violating the Act is liable for its own violations, and thus a plaintiff may recover statutory damages from each party who violated the Act.137 This result is consistent with the Act’s deterrent purposes: “The purpose of the statute is to punish odometer tamperers by imposing civil penalties upon them and to reward purchasers who discover such tampering and bring it to the attention of the federal courts.”138 The alternative, limiting a second defendant’s liability to the incremental