An Oregon jury slammed PacifiCorp with nearly $18 million in punitive damages, then calculated a ratio that could end up awarding potentially $28.1 billion for a class of thousands in a rare trial over wildfires that damaged private properties during Labor Day weekend 2020.
Wednesday’s verdict added punitive damages to the $72 million in compensatory damages that the same jury awarded to 17 plaintiffs on June 9.
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