Williams v. Aetna Finance Co.

This appeal presents four principal issues for our review: (1) whether the trial court properly denied ITT’s motion to compel arbitration; (2) the propriety of the grounds for Williams’s recovery against ITT, under a theory of civil conspiracy, upheld by the court of appeals; (3) whether ITT was found derivatively liable for punitive damages based on a third party’s violations of the CSPA and HSSA; and (4) whether punitive damages were improperly assessed, and whether the amount of punitive damages awarded is so excessive that a due process violation occurred. For the following reasons, after *471…