Vossler v. Richards Manufacturing Co.

Opinion

ANDREEN, J.

Defendant Richards Manufacturing Cornpany, Inc. (Richards) appeals from a judgment following jury trial in a products liability case. No attack is made on the sufficiency of evidence except as to the matter of punitive damages. The judgment was for compensatory damages of $25,000 and punitive damages of $500,000. We affirm.

Facts

We state the record in a light most favorable to the judgment. (Neal v. Farmers Ins. Exchange (1978) 21 Cal.3d 910, 922 [148 Cal.Rptr. 389, 582 P.2d 980].)

In the period from 1970 through 1972, Dr. Leonard Marmor, an orthopedic surgeon working with the…