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Md. top court erases $1B punitive award in Exxon case 

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    • March 8, 2013

Residents who claimed their groundwater was contaminated by an underground gasoline leak could not recover punitive damages from Exxon Mobil for fraud, Maryland’s highest court has ruled.
The plaintiffs are residents of Jacksonville, Md. who lived in the vicinity of an Exxon Mobil-owned gas station. In 2006, the leak detection » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2013/03/08/md-top-court-erases-1b-punitive-award-in-exxon-case/

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