{"id":447,"date":"2014-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/could-non-economic-damages-caps-be-discriminatory\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:33","slug":"could-non-economic-damages-caps-be-discriminatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/could-non-economic-damages-caps-be-discriminatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Could non-economic damages caps be discriminatory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our prior post, we talked about how caps on non-economic damages could be harmful to medical malpractice plaintiffs, in that they may not compensate injuries that involve a great deal of pain and suffering or long-term emotional injuries. With these scenarios possible when medical negligence mars procedures involving reproductive organs or victims of sexual assault, could it be that some malpractice victims are treated differently than others?<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/joanne-doroshow\/malpractice-caps_b_6064274.html\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> about women, children and elderly medical malpractice victims, it appears that their injuries are largely compensated through non-economic damages, which are capped at $250,000 in a number of states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, damages caps create an unfair value system where certain members of society may not recover what they should be entitled to based on the nature of their injury. Instead, damages may be determined on a person\u2019s earning capacity. Since women tend to be awarded more than men when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/medical-malpractice.html\">non-economic damages<\/a>, such caps could be seen as discriminatory and work towards an unequal system of access to justice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/could-non-economic-damages-caps-be-discriminatory\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Could non-economic damages caps be discriminatory?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our prior post, we talked about how caps on non-economic damages could be harmful to medical malpractice plaintiffs, in that they may not compensate injuries that involve a great deal of pain and suffering or long-term emotional injuries. With these scenarios possible when medical negligence mars procedures involving reproductive organs or victims of sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Could non-economic damages caps be discriminatory? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; November 24, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Could non-economic damages caps be discriminatory? - Medical Malpractice - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/could-non-economic-damages-caps-be-discriminatory\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Could non-economic damages caps be discriminatory? 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