Lawyers who handle personal injury cases have circled Tuesday, Sept. 15 on their calendars. That’s the day the state Supreme Court will hear a legal challenge to limits on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases.
The damages caps are one of the aspects of the 2005 legislative changes to tort law most loathed by plaintiff’s lawyers. The Sept. 15 argument at the high court could be a major showdown over the caps, one the high court avoided last year when the parties to a similar case settled just days before arguments.
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