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Witnesses urge indexing damage caps to inflation as committee hears HB 447
Summary
Supporters of House Bill 447 told the House Judiciary Committee that Ohio’s caps on non-economic damages are arbitrary and outdated; the bill would increase those caps and create an inflation-indexing process, though witnesses noted parts of the sponsor’s amendment remain objectionable.
Supporters of House Bill 447 told the House Judiciary Committee that Ohio’s statutory caps on non-economic damages are arbitrary, too low compared with inflation and harm survivors’ access to justice.
Lindsey Lawrence, identified as an attorney with the Ohio Association of Justice, said the caps enacted in the mid-2000s limit juries’ ability to award full compensation. "The constitutional responsibility of juries to decide questions and provide justice to those who have been harmed was replaced by an arbitrary…
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