Automobile Fraud: 8.11.8.6 Statutory Damages Are Not Decided in an “Imprecise Manner”
Another key concern of the Supreme Court in Gore was “the imprecise manner in which punitive damages systems are administered.”774 This concern is not relevant to statutory or multiple damages.775 As the First Circuit held in Matamoros: “Here—unlike in [State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. v.] Campbell—there is no cause for concern about the ‘imprecise manner in which punitive damages systems are administered’ by juries. . . .