Colorado Car Accident Settlements: Two Different Caps
Colorado caps ordinary injury damages at $613,760 — but wrongful death claims get a separate cap over $2 million, plus who can sue just changed.
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Damages Caps & Limits
Statutory limits on what a claim can recover, including caps on non-economic and punitive damages and limits that apply to public-entity defendants.
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Guides tagged Damages Caps & Limits
Oklahoma Car Accident Settlements: A New, Untested Cap
Oklahoma's damages cap was struck down as unconstitutional in 2019. A new one took effect in 2025 — and no court has tested it yet.
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Filing a Military Malpractice Claim Under the Stayskal Act
A real remedy for military malpractice, but not a lawsuit: no jury, a $750,000 cap on non-economic damages, and a combat-care exclusion.
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Tennessee Car Accident Settlements: The 1-Year Deadline
Tennessee gives you one year to sue, not two, and caps pain-and-suffering damages at $750,000 unless the injury is catastrophic.
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Airline Injury Claims and the Montreal Convention
On an international flight a treaty controls everything: strict liability up to a limit, a hard two-year deadline, and only certain courts.
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Punitive Damages: When They Apply and What Limits Them
Punitive damages need more than negligence, face constitutional limits on size, and usually aren't insured — which changes what they're actually worth.
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Wrongful Death From Medical Malpractice: The Causation Fight
Proving malpractice caused a death is harder than proving it caused an injury — the underlying illness is often already competing for credit as the real cause.
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Dealing With State Farm After a Car Accident Injury Claim
How State Farm's claims process works, and what the Supreme Court's landmark punitive damages case against it actually held about claims handling.
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Is a Nursing Home Claim Medical Malpractice or Negligence?
Whether your state calls it malpractice or ordinary negligence decides the deadline, whether you need an expert report, and whether damages are capped.
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Truck Accident Settlements in Ohio: Amounts & Damages Cap
What truck claims settle for in Ohio, and the state's non-economic damages cap — which disappears entirely if the injury qualifies as catastrophic.
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PTSD & Emotional Distress Settlements After an Accident (2026)
How psychological injury claims are valued: what PTSD adds to a settlement, the impact rule and zone of danger limits, and how insurers attack them.
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Truck Accident Settlements in Texas: Amounts & State Laws (2026)
What truck claims settle for in Texas, how the state's 51% fault bar works, and why the 2021 trucking litigation reform changed these cases.
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Wrongful Death & Drunk Driving: Dram Shop Claims Explained
How wrongful death claims work against a drunk driver, when a bar or store can also be liable under dram shop laws, and how punitive damages change the value.
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