re: #98 realwest

Well you could certainly cap the awards granted to the actual medical costs, loss of wages and projected loss of income for the rest of someone’s expected lifetime and then put say a $100,000 cap on the “pain and suffering” part of an award.
IIRC, “Pain and Suffering” accounted for roughly 70% of jury awards in medical malpractice cases (though this is going back about 8 years or so).

Even though its 8 years old, 70% sounds perfectly reasonable to me. No doubt its in the ballpark. My question to you would be, what about cases of malpractice where the suffering is above and beyond? Let’s say where a young person’s life is forever changed by the malpractice? Would there be a way to compensate that person beyond the cap?