Section 22 Available Damages Under All Theories

• Library: Employment Discrimination 2008

Under all four categories of public policy wrongful discharge, plaintiffs may recover both compensatory and punitive damages. In Brenneke v. Department of Missouri, Veterans of Foreign Wars of United States of America, 984 S.W.2d 134 (Mo. App. W.D. 1998), the court found that future lost wages were properly argued and should have been included in MAI 4.01 now [2002 Revision], and expert testimony was not necessary to present such evidence to the jury. Brenneke, 984 S.W.2d at 141–42. Punitive damages are...