"" However, corporations, counties and cities cannot have the emotions of humans such as malice, and therefore are not liable for punitive damages."""

All very tidy, and an example of just how far from personhood corporations are.

Malice is not simply a matter of human emotions.

A company which knows of a danger to human life existing in either its machinery or policies and ignores that danger by reason of a "cost benefit analysis", is guilty of legal malice, since it wantonly accepts that its actions will most likely kill, but the compensation will be less than the cost of removing the danger.

If punitive damages cannot be levied, just what will prevent a "cost benefit" culture spreading from the airline companies to the whole manufacturing base and beyond.

Don T.