I have long felt that “punitive damages” should be outlawed, for the same reason that ex post facto laws are outlawed.
To the point that they often times go beyond being punitive and end up representing absurd or destructive criminal styled sadism. Punitive damage awards should either be outlawed outright or at least severely restricted as often times the award represents vengeance rather than justice.
And seriously even consider cutting out the lawyers sharing in the punitive award portion of the award and limit what they receive to actual damage awards which would allow the punitive damage award to truly benefit the victim and not line the pockets of the greedy out of control lawyers.