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Top court rejects punitive damages, orders new trials for Exxon leak (access required)

Posted: 12:09 pm Tue, February 26, 2013
By Kristi Tousignant
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer

The state’s top court has eliminated the $1 billion award of punitive damages to Baltimore County residents stemming from a massive 2006 gasoline leak in Jacksonville, and wiped out or ordered new trials on much of the $650 million in compensatory damages as well.

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