Are there caps on damages in motorcycle accident cases?

There are damage caps in medical malpractice cases but not yet for other types of injury cases in Florida. Unfortunately there are “tort reformers” out there (mostly corporations and insurance companies) who are constantly trying to convince legislators to pass laws placing artificially low limits on damage recoveries in all injury cases. They claim it is necessary to stop “frivolous” cases. Unfortunately, their caps on damages would not apply only to “frivolous” cases but to all cases, no matter how negligent the other person was or how big the actual damages are. The courts and appellate courts already have in place procedures for weeding out most of the frivolous cases. So the real impact of damage caps is that the legitimate claimants with the biggest injuries are hurt the most by the artificial low limits. People with small damages aren’t hurt at all by low caps.

 

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