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In Maryland, non-economic damages are capped at $800,000. In personal injury cases, non-economic damages are defined as "pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement, loss of consortium, or other nonpecuniary injury". In wrongful death cases non-economic damages are defined as "mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering ...
For the first time in California, the Supreme Court held that plaintiffs, in a statutory action for wrongful death, may recover so-called "non-economic" damages: damages for the loss of the deceased's "love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, protection, affection, society, [and] moral support." [2]
NIED began to develop in the late nineteenth century, but only in a very limited form, in the sense that plaintiffs could recover for consequential emotional distress as a component of damages when a defendant negligently inflicted physical harm upon them. By 1908, most industrial U.S. states had adopted the "physical impact" form of NIED.
The act limited non-economic damages (e.g., damages for pain and suffering) in most malpractice cases to $250,000 across all healthcare providers and $250,000 for healthcare facilities, with a limit of two facilities per claim. [43] [44] As of 2013, Texas was one of 31 states to cap non-economic damages. [43]
Under AB 35, the caps on non-economic damages will rise and become indexed to inflation. Over the first ten years, the cap on non-economic damages for non-death cases will increase steadily to $750,000, and that for cases involving a death to $1 million; after this, the caps will adjust for inflation annually by 2%.
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A finding in those states that a defendant's conduct was "wanton," "reckless" or "despicable", rather than merely negligent, can be significant because certain defenses, such as contributory negligence, are often unavailable when such conduct is the cause of the damages.
Proposition 46, also known as Prop 46, Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Cap and Drug Testing of Doctors Initiative and the Troy and Alana Pack Patient Safety Act of 2014, was a California ballot proposition intended to increase the state's limit on non-economic damages that could be reviewed in medical negligence lawsuits from $250,000 to over $1 million.