Mealey's (August 6, 2018, 9:05 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 2 found that a nursing home, its owner and the company that managed the facility should pay punitive damages to the families of three people who died while in a wing for ventilator-dependent patients, but reduced the amounts after finding that the original awards issued by a jury exceeded North Carolina law (Geraldine L. Vandevender, et al. v. Blue Ridge of Raleigh LLC, et al., Nos. 17-1900, 17-1951, 4th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 21464)....