Tennessee § 29-26-119 - Damages.

§ 29-26-119. Damages.

In a health care liability action in which liability is admitted or established, the damages awarded may include (in addition to other elements of damages authorized by law) actual economic losses suffered by the claimant by reason of the personal injury, including, but not limited to, cost of reasonable and necessary medical care, rehabilitation services, and custodial care, loss of services and loss of earned income, but only to the extent that such costs are not paid or payable and such losses are not replaced, or indemnified in whole or in part, by insurance provided by an employer either governmental or private, by social security benefits, service benefit programs, unemployment benefits, or any other source except the assets of the claimant or of the members of the claimant's immediate family and insurance purchased in whole or in part, privately and individually. Acts 1975, ch. 299, § 18; T.C.A., § 23-3418; Acts 2012, ch. 798, § 11. Amendments. The 2012 amendment substituted “health care liability action” for “malpractice action”. Effective Dates. Acts 2012, ch. 798, § 59. April 23, 2012. Law Reviews. A Pragmatic Approach to Improving Tort Law, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1447 (2001). Accidental Torts, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1225 (2001). Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Negligence Standard, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 893 (2001). Duty Rules, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 767 (2001). Fye v. Kennedy: Time to Examine Tennessee's Collateral Source Rule (William S. Walton), 48 Tenn. B.J. 16 (2012). Intent and Recklessness in Tort: The Practical Craft of Restating Law, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1133 (2001). Interpretive Construction, Systematic Consistency, and Criterial Norms in Tort Law, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1157 (2001). Legal Cause: Cause-In-Fact and the Scope of Liability for Consequences, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 941 (2001). Managed Care Liability: The Coming Wave in Medical Malpractice (Stephen E. Roth and Jeffrey H. Wicks), 36 No. 6 Tenn. B.J. 14 (2000). Non-Utilitarian Negligence Norms and the Reasonable Person Standard, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 863 (2001). Once More Into the Bramble Bush: Duty, Causal Contribution, and the Extent of Legal Responsibility, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1071 (2001). On Determining Negligence Norms, the Reasonable Person Standard, and the Jury, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 813 (2001). Purpose, Belief, and Recklessness: Pruning the Restatement's (Third) Definition of Intent, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1165 (2001). Relevance: The Tennessee Balancing Act (Robert Banks, Jr., Melissa Maravich), 57 Tenn. L. Rev. 33 (1989). Removing Emotional Harm from the Core of Tort Law, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 751 (2001). Restatement (Third) of Torts: General Principles and the Prescription of Masculine Order, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1367 (2001). Restating Duty, Breach, and Proximate Cause in Negligence Law: Descriptive Theory and the Rule of Law, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1039 (2001). Scientific Uncertainty and Causation in Tort Law, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1011 (2001). The Duty Concept in Negligence Law, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 787 (2001). The Hand Formula in the Draft Restatement (Third) of Torts: Encompassing Fairness as well as Efficiency Values, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 901 (2001). The John W. Wade Conference on the Third Restatement of Torts, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 639 (2001). The Passing of Palsgraf?, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 803 (2001). The Restatement of Torts and the Courts, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1439 (2001). The Restatement (Third) and the Place of Duty in Negligence Law, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 657 (2001). The Standard of Care and Informed Consent Under the Tennessee Medical Malpractice Act (Joseph H. King, Jr.), 44 Tenn. L. Rev. (2) 225. The Theory of Enterprise Liability and Common Law Strict Liability, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1285 (2001). The Theory of Tort Doctrine and the Restatement (Third) of Torts, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1413 (2001). The Trouble with Negligence, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1187 (2001). The Unexpected Persistence of Negligence, 1980 - 2000, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1337 (2001). Cited: Russell v. Crutchfield, 988 S.W.2d 168, 1998 Tenn. App. LEXIS 294 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1998); Ward v. Glover, 206 S.W.3d 17, 2006 Tenn. App. LEXIS 364 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006); Smith v. Mills, — S.W.3d —, 2011 Tenn. App. LEXIS 539 (Tenn. Ct. App. Oct. 4, 2011).