09/17/2026
Did you know that the Tennessee legislature has limited the amount of damages for pain and suffering that severely injured persons can recover due to someone's negligence to $750,000? The linked news article explains that the recent patients who were injured when they were given the wrong medication in a Nashville hospital will be limited to this amount for their non-economic damages. This limit applies to all personal injury and medical malpractice cases. The limit increases to $1,000,000 for spinal cord injuries, amputations, severe burns and the wrongful death of a parent with a minor child.
A Tennessee law passed in 2011 limits what the four patients critically injured in the drug mix-up at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown can collect in damages from the hospital if they sue