While ordering the company to pay $179 million, a California arbitrator used 66 pages to slam Fox executives for their handling of licensing deals for 'Bones.'
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, its executive producer and the author of the books on which the series was based — and the multi-million dollar award isn’t even the most jaw-dropping aspect of this whole ordeal.
The $179 million award is the second largest verdict in the history of television industry “Hollywood accounting scandals” — a term coined by the plaintiffs in their original complaint. The largest such award was a jury verdict against Disney for $319 million in 2011 overIn arriving at the final, staggering $179 million figure, Lichtman concluded that five times the amount of actual damages for breach of contract would be appropriate as punitive damages, settling on $128.
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