Physician Law Blog
June 20, 2018
The Ever-Changing Caps on Non-Economic Damages for Medical Malpractice Cases in Missouri
From the inception of an initial pleading until the final word of closing arguments, attorneys constantly assess, reassess, and re-reassess the “value” of their case based on each new piece of information that is introduced. While the term “value” can have any number of meanings (final ownership of a patent, full custody of a child, etc.), attorneys on both sides of a medical malpractice case assess value based on monetary damages.