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SB 125 Punitive damages; persons injured by intoxicated drivers.

Introduced by: William M. Stanley, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Punitive damages for persons injured by intoxicated drivers. Provides that, for the purposes of a punitive damages award in a civil action for personal injury or death arising from the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated, in order to have a rebuttable presumption that a defendant's blood alcohol concentration at the time of the incident causing injury or death was at least as high as results of a blood or breath test, such test must have been administered in accordance with the provisions of §§ 18.2-268.1 through 18.2-268.12, which lay out the procedures for obtaining blood and breath tests. Under current law, to have the rebuttable presumption, such blood or breath test must have been administered within three hours of the incident causing injury or death.


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