MO: Senate Gives Preliminary Approval to Med Mal Caps

Last week, I reported the Missouri House had given preliminary approval to a $350,000 noneconomic damages cap in med mal cases.  The Senate has now given preliminary approval to a med mal noneconomic damages cap, but the details are different:

In most cases, a cap of $400,000 would apply. In more serious “catastrophic” injuries specifically defined in the bill — including paralysis, brain injury or a loss of vision — the cap would be $700,000. The bill also raises an existing $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages in wrongful death cases to $700,000.

All three of these caps would increase each year by 1.7 percent under the bill.

AP has the story.