Court Opinion

ID: 9616913
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:50:44.937035+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:05:48.681267
License: Public Domain

TANZER, J.,
concurring.
I concur entirely with the majority opinion, but I write separately to clarify my understanding of it.
It is critical to this opinion that the plaintiffs made every reasonable effort to obtain an overall adjudication of punitive damages and that defendant successfully resisted those efforts. We should not be understood as deciding that *73multiple plaintiffs are necessarily entitled to successive, individual adjudications of punitive damages in situations where they do not attempt to avail themselves of some form of combined litigation or where the defendant does not resist it. As I understand it, no opinion is expressed in that regard.