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Bill Detail: HB24-1472

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Title Raise Damage Limit Tort Actions
Status Governor Signed (06/03/2024)
Bill Subjects
  • Courts & Judicial
House Sponsors K. Brown (D)
R. Pugliese (R)
Senate Sponsors R. Gardner (R)
K. Mullica (D)
House Committee Judiciary
Senate Committee Finance
Date Introduced 05/05/2024
Summary

For civil actions filed on or after January 1, 2025, the bill increases
the cap on damages for noneconomic loss or injury from $250,000 to $1.5
million, and starting January 1, 2028, and every 2 years thereafter, adjusts
the damages cap based on inflation.
Current law specifies who may sue for wrongful death. The bill
adds a sibling of the deceased as a party who may bring a wrongful death
action in certain circumstances.
The bill imposes a wrongful death damages cap of $2.125 million,
and starting January 1, 2028, and every 2 years thereafter, adjusts the
damages cap based on inflation.
Beginning January 1, 2025, the bill incrementally increases the
medical malpractice wrongful death damages limitation to $1.575 million
over the course of 5 years. Thereafter, the cap is adjusted biennially for
inflation.
Existing law limits the amount recoverable for noneconomic
damages in medical malpractice actions to $300,000. Beginning January
1, 2025, the bill incrementally increases the noneconomic damages
limitation to $875,000 over the course of 5 years. Thereafter, the cap is
adjusted biennially for inflation.

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