North Broward Hospital District v. Susan Kalitan, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed the decision invalidating statutory caps on noneconomic damages in personal-injury medical-negligence actions. Applying rational-basis review, it held that the caps arbitrarily reduce recovery for the most seriously injured victims and lack a rational relationship to the asserted objective of addressing a medical-malpractice insurance crisis. Justice Polston, joined by Justices Canady and Lawson, dissenting, would have upheld the caps under a deferential rational-basis analysis.