Tennessee Supreme Court Decides that Personal Injury Claims and Derivative Loss of Consortium Claims are Aggregated for the Purposes of the Tennessee Damages Cap Statute
By EsqSocial Corporation 09/06/21
In 2011, the Tennessee legislature enacted limitations on non-economic compensatory damages and punitive damages which are recoverable in Tennessee. T.C.A. 29-39-102 was part of the Tennessee Civil Justice Act of 2011. It limits non-economic compensatory damages suffered by each injured plaintiff to $750,000 except in cases of what the legislature defined as "catastrophic" injury, in which case the limit on non-economic damages is increased to $1,000,000. T.C.A. sections 29-39-102(a)(2), (c) and...
By: Baker Donelson