Limitation on noneconomic damages
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Ferdon Ex Rel. Petrucelli v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund (2005)
Most recently applied in 383 Wis. 2d 1 - Ascaris Mayo v. Wisconsin Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (June 2018)
1985 a. 340; 1995 a. 10; 2005 a. 183
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The amount of noneconomic damages recoverable by a claimant or plaintiff under this chapter for acts or omissions of a health care provider if the act or omission occurs on or after April 6, 2006, and for acts or omissions of an employee of a health care provider, acting within the scope of his or her employment and providing health care services, for acts or omissions occurring on or after April 6, 2006, is subject to the limits under s. 893.55 (4)
(d) and (f).
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.