In 2011, the Tennessee legislature enacted limitations on non-economic compensatory damages and punitive damages which are recoverable in Tennessee. T.C.A. 29-39-102 was part of the Tennessee Civil Justice Act of 2011. It...more
On June 19, 2019, the Supreme Court of Tennessee accepted certification of three questions of law relating to Tennessee's statutory non-economic damages cap. The certification follows on the heels of a decision from a divided...more
On October 26, 2015, the Tennessee Supreme Court returned to a summary judgment standard consistent with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in a Memphis health care liability case. In Rye v. Women's Care Center of Memphis,...more
In a previous "Litigation Alert for Businesses with Tennessee Operations," we reported that Judge Neil Thomas, Circuit Judge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, held that Tennessee's statutory cap on non-economic damages was...more