Bills › 88th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the total amount of noneconomic damages recoverable in a civil action for personal injury or death against a health care provider. Current law limits to $250,000 the amount of noneconomic damages recoverable for any occurrence resulting in injury or death of a patient regardless of the number of plaintiffs, derivative claims, theories of liability, or defendants in the civil action, unless the jury determines that there is a substantial or permanent loss or impairment of a bodily function, substantial disfigurement, or death, which warrants a finding that imposition of such a limitation would deprive the plaintiff of just compensation for the injuries sustained.
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Current law also provides that the limitation on damages shall not apply as to a defendant if the defendant’s actions constituted actual malice. _____ just compensation for the injuries sustained. Under the bill, “noneconomic damages” means damages arising from pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering, loss of chance, loss of consortium, or any other nonpecuniary damages.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 28, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
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