Sec. 303. Cap, in wrongful death cases, on total damages against any single health care practitioner
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When an individual dies as the result of health care, a person entitled to damages may not recover, from any single liable health care practitioner (regardless of the theory of liability), more than $1,400,000 in total damages. In this section, the term total damages includes compensatory damages, punitive damages, statutory damages, and any other type of damages. For each calendar year after the calendar year of the enactment of this Act, the dollar amount referred to in subsection
(a)shall be adjusted to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor. The adjustment shall be based on the relationship between— the Consumer Price Index data most recently published as of January 1 of the calendar year of the enactment of this Act; and the Consumer Price Index data most recently published as of January 1 of the calendar year concerned. The dollar amount that applies to a recovery is the dollar amount for the calendar year during which the amount of the recovery is made final.