Noneconomic damages · Massachusetts
For Noneconomic damages, state is Massachusetts; cap amount is five hundred thousand dollars for pain and suffering, loss of companionship, embarrassment and other items of general damages unless the jury determines that there is a substantial or permanent loss or impairment of a bodily function or substantial disfigurement, or other special circumstances in the case which warrant a finding that imposition of such a limitation would deprive the plaintiff of just compensation for the injuries sustained; currently effective amount is five hundred thousand dollars; constitutional status is Cap enacted; source does not address validity; statutory citation is Section 60H, recorded from its source on 2026-09-21.
- State
- Massachusetts our reading
- Type of cap
- Noneconomic damages our reading
- Cap amount
- five hundred thousand dollars for pain and suffering, loss of companionship, embarrassment and other items of general damages unless the jury determines that there is a substantial or permanent loss or impairment of a bodily function or substantial disfigurement, or other special circumstances in the case which warrant a finding that imposition of such a limitation would deprive the plaintiff of just compensation for the injuries sustained. verified
- Currently effective amount
- five hundred thousand dollars our reading
- Constitutional status
- Cap enacted; source does not address validity our reading
- Statutory citation
- Section 60H verified
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What the source says
Section 60H: Limitation of damages for pain and suffering Section 60H. In any action for malpractice, negligence, error, omission, mistake or the unauthorized rendering of professional services, other than actions brought under section two of chapter two hundred and twenty-nine, against a provider of health care, the court shall instruct the jury that in the event they find the defendant liable, they shall not award the plaintiff more than five hundred thousand dollars for pain and suffering, loss of companionship, embarrassment and other items of general damages unless the jury determines that there is a substantial or permanent loss or impairment of a bodily function or substantial disfigurement, or other special circumstances in the case which warrant a finding that imposition of such a limitation would deprive the plaintiff of just compensation for the injuries sustained.
— malegislature.gov, retrieved 2026-09-21
Source
- malegislature.govhttps://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIII/TitleII/Chapter231/Section60H