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Davies, Martin --- "Punitive damages" [2019] ELECD 1452; in Handl, Gunther; Svendsen, Kristoffer (eds), "Managing the Risk of Offshore Oil and Gas Accidents" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 337

Book Title: Managing the Risk of Offshore Oil and Gas Accidents

Editor(s): Handl, Günther; Svendsen, Kristoffer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 8

Section Title: Punitive damages

Author(s): Davies, Martin

Number of pages: 17

Abstract/Description:

Punitive damages are awarded in the United States less often, and in smaller amounts, than is popularly imagined. This chapter shows that very few incidents in offshore oil and gas exploration and production could lead to an award of punitive damages in the United States. Punitive damages would not be available for pollution damage claims, or for personal injury or death claims brought by or on behalf of seafarers, or for claims brought by workers on fixed platforms against their employers. Punitive damages would most probably not be available in relation to similar incidents in other common law countries and would definitely not be available in civil law countries.