What is the burden of proving a defendant's financial condition in a claim for punitive damages?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Fernandes v. Singh, 16 Cal.App.5th 932, 224 Cal.Rptr.3d 751 (Cal. App. 2017):
Pointing to a general rule regarding punitive damages, that it is a plaintiff's burden to prove a defendant's financial condition (see Adams v. Murakami (1991) 54 Cal.3d 105, 108-109, 284 Cal.Rptr. 318, 813 P.2d 1348 ), Rawat faults the evidence of her financial condition because
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