Originally from Journal of American Arbitration (JAA)

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I. INTRODUCTION 

A. Federal Policy Favoring Arbitration 

B. The Question of Arbitrability 

C. Punitive Damages 

D. Arbitrator’s Power to Award Damages 

II.   HISTORY OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN ARBITRATION 

A. Commercial Contracts 

1. The Federal Circuits Once Had Differing Views on

Punitive Damages 

2. Eleventh, Ninth, Eighth and First Circuits 

3. Second and Seventh Circuits 

4. Mastrobuono v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. 

5. Life After Mastrobuono 

B. The Problem of Statutory Rights to Punitive Damages 

1. Life After PacifiCare 

III. SHOULD PUNITIVE DAMAGES BE A PART OF ARBITRATION 

IV. STANDARDS FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES AWARDS: THE NEW 

PROBLEM OF REVIEW 

V. CONCLUSION