Insurance companies and business boosters are calling for "truth in damages," while personal-injury attorneys dismiss the plan as LIMP, short for limitations in medical payments.

These diametric opposites will clash in the Florida Legislature over whether juries should be told about injury-related future medical costs. It is one of many proposals to change the state’s medical malpractice law in the legislative session starting Tuesday.

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