Automobile Fraud: 8.11.2.6 Intent, Malice, Trickery, or Deceit
The fifth factor in evaluating reprehensibility is whether the harm resulted from intentional malice, trickery or deceit, or from mere accident. Reckless indifference may be sufficient.590 In nearly all automobile fraud cases the proof of the merits of the claim will show that the defendant’s acts involved intentional malice, trickery, deceit, or reckless indifference, thus satisfying this element.591