Parties Want Punitives In Surgical Gown Class Simply Reduced, Followed By Appeals

(April 12, 2018, 11:35 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — All parties in a surgical gown class action on April 9 and 10 told a California federal judge that that they would prefer for the court to simply reduce the $450 million punitive damage award so they can skip a punitives-only retrial and proceed directly to appeals (Bahamas Surgery Center, LLC v. Kimberly-Clark Corporation, et al., No. 14-8390, C.D. Calif.)....