{"id":984,"date":"2021-07-21T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/are-most-medical-malpractice-awards-subject-to-a-cap-on-damages-if-so-which-damages-are-capped\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T21:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:01:39","slug":"are-most-medical-malpractice-awards-subject-to-a-cap-on-damages-if-so-which-damages-are-capped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/are-most-medical-malpractice-awards-subject-to-a-cap-on-damages-if-so-which-damages-are-capped\/","title":{"rendered":"Are most medical malpractice awards subject to a cap on damages, if so, which damages are capped?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each state has its own laws regarding medical malpractice. Louisiana has a cap on damages of $500,000. It includes all items of damages except medical expenses. Other states like California may have lower caps, but their caps allow recovery of lost wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each state has its own laws regarding medical malpractice. Louisiana has a cap on damages of $500,000. It includes all items of damages except medical expenses. Other states like California may have lower caps, but their caps allow recovery of lost wages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}