Researchers detail what happened in Illinois and Georgia after their state courts knocked down limits on noneconomic damages ...

Maryland lawmakers are weighing legislation that would raise the cap on noneconomic damages in personal injury and wrongful death cases, a change that supporters say would more fairly compensate ...

The Florida Supreme Court has concluded the cap on wrongful death noneconomic damages violates the state Constitution’s equal protection clause. The Florida caps limited payments for pain and ...

"We hold that the circuit court erred in applying the Maryland cap on non-economic damages to the damages that the jury awarded to Ms. [Shelly] Blackston," Justice Angela M. Eaves wrote in her opinion ...

On October 20, the Colorado Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a $40 million medical malpractice verdict, clarifying when and how juries – not judges – should determine damages in catastrophic injury ...

May 10—CONCORD — New Hampshire would more than triple the court-awarded damages that surviving spouses and their children could receive for loss of companionship under legislation on its way to the ...

A Kansas Senate bill that aims to gradually increase the limit on damages that can be awarded for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases has cleared both the Kansas House and Senate and is ...

WMUR NEWS NINE AT SIX STARTS RIGHT NOW. TONIGHT, A JUROR INVOLVED IN THE CIVIL TRIAL AGAINST THE STATE OVER ABUSE AT THE FORMER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER IS SPEAKING EXCLUSIVELY TO NEWS NINE. GOOD ...

A recent editorial and article about the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse overlook some key aspects of sovereign immunity and why damages caps are a necessary taxpayer protection. The bridge collapse was ...