Missouri Panel Affirms $2M Punitive Damages Award For Dram Shop Liability Claims

(June 18, 2021, 10:58 AM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri appeals panel held June 15 that a lower court did not err when it awarded $2 million in punitive damages to the victim of a head-on collision with a drunken driver on her statutory dram shop liability claims, rejecting a commercial general liability insurer’s argument that the Missouri Dram Shop Act does not permit the recovery of punitive damages....

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