Legal Opinion
Bernard Litman v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 1986No. 85-5939PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Senior Circuit Judge:
This suit, for breach of a general agency agreement and for slander, resulted in a jury verdict for Litman, and a panel of this court decided the appeal of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (Mass. Mutual) for the most part favorably to Litman, but remanded for a new trial the issue of punitive damages. Litman v. Massachusetts Mutual, 739 F.2d 1549 (11th Cir.1984). There had been no cross-appeal. In the court below, Mass. Mutual stipulated it waived the new trial but accepted and would pay the full amount of punitive damages the jury had awarded,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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3Cited by6 opinions
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