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3347 REVIEW GRANTED To satisfy the corporate state of mind requirement in a claim for punitive damages, plaintiff may show information in the possession of the corporation and the structure of management decision-making sufficient to permit an inference that the information moved upward to a point where corporate policy was formulated; a punitive damages award of $290,000,000 was not excessive when coupled with compensatory damages in excess of $6,000,000, where the amount of punitive damages represented 1.2 percent of the defendant's net worth and only 9 days of profit; a presumption that parties were prejudiced by juror misconduct was overcome by a presumption that jurors followed the trial court's instructions.CitationROMO v FORD (Bronco Rollover) 99 CA4 1115 [See: CivC 3294; White v Ultramar 21 C4 563, T/AT 9/99; Rufo v Simpson 86 CA4 573, T/AT 3/01; Craddock v Kmart 89 CA4 1300, T/AT 7/01]
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