Total damages · Louisiana
For Total damages, state is Louisiana; cap amount is $500,000 cap on total damages, excluding damages recoverable for future medical care; currently effective amount is $500,000; constitutional status is Cap enacted; source does not address validity, recorded from its source on 2026-09-03.
- State
- Louisiana our reading
- Type of cap
- Total damages our reading
- Cap amount
- $500,000 cap on total damages, excluding damages recoverable for future medical care. verified
- Currently effective amount
- $500,000 our reading
- Constitutional status
- Cap enacted; source does not address validity our reading
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
Louisiana $500,000 cap on total damages, excluding damages recoverable for future medical care. A health care provider covered by the Patient’s Compensation Fund shall not be liable for more than $100,000.
— ama-assn.org, retrieved 2026-09-03
Source
- ama-assn.orghttps://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/mlr-state-laws-chart-I.pdf