Catastrophic injury noneconomic damages · Ohio
For Catastrophic injury noneconomic damages, state is Ohio; cap amount is five hundred thousand dollars for each plaintiff or one million dollars for each occurrence; constitutional status is Cap enacted; source does not address validity, recorded from its source on 2026-09-03.
- State
- Ohio our reading
- Type of cap
- Catastrophic injury noneconomic damages our reading
- Cap amount
- five hundred thousand dollars for each plaintiff or one million dollars for each occurrence verified
- 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
(3) The amount recoverable for noneconomic loss in a civil action under this section may exceed the amount described in division (A)(2) of this section but shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars for each plaintiff or one million dollars for each occurrence if the noneconomic losses of the plaintiff are for either of the following: (a) Permanent and substantial physical deformity, loss of use of a limb, or loss of a bodily organ system; (b) Permanent physical functional injury that permanently prevents the injured person from being able to independently care for self and perform life sustaining activities.
— codes.ohio.gov, retrieved 2026-09-03
Source
- codes.ohio.govhttps://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2323.43