Quicken Loans, Inc. v. Lourie Brown and Monique Brown

A mere five months after mishandling a substantial punitive damages verdict in Manor Care v. Douglas, 234 W.Va. 57, 763 S.E.2d 73 (2014), the majority has chosen to ignore federal jurisprudence by; affirming a punitive damage verdict that violates principles of due process. I write separately not only to express my disagreement with the majority’s decision to affirm the punitive damage award in the instant ease, but to articulate my staunch disagreement with the Court’s related decision in Quicken Loans, Inc. v. Brown, 230 W.Va. 306, 737 S.E.2d 640 (2012) (hereinafter “QuickenI”), to…