Damage Caps News Today

Cash awards for pain, suffering and other non-economic complications from medical malpractice lawsuits likely will be capped at $2 million for hospitals and $1 million for doctors.

"From Damage Caps to Decarceration: Extending Tort Law Safeguards to Criminal Sentencing" The title of this post is the title of this new article on SSRN authored by Andrea Roth and Jane Bambauer.  Here is its abstract: The Supreme Court has recognized a civil defendant’s substantive due process right not to be subject to grossly excessive punitive damage awards.  Such awards — even if furthering legitimate state interests in retribution and deterrence — must not be grossly disproporti...

So if you really focus on the terrible deed that this young man did. they could say, were victim, too, and were not responsibility for that act. >> theres this whole notion of the damaged c-- damage caps, wht takes the damage caps away so these families can be paid out millions upon millions depending on what they lost. if they lost a wall street executive that was making $20 million and had 15 more years to make that money, would lufthansa and germanwings have to pay? >> you have to understand ...