Robinson v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• commenting that “the judiciary may not sit as a superlegislature” (citation omitted)
• upholding a $1 million cap on noneconomic damages; the legislative classification will be upheld \if it is reasonably related to the achievement of a legitimate state purpose.\
• upholding a $1 million cap on noneconomic damages; the legislative classification will be upheld \if it is reasonably related to the achievement of a legitimate state purpose.\
• holding statutory cap in MPLA applies to loss of consortium claim
• damage limitation for pain and suffering in West Virginia Medical Professional Liability Act, W.Va.Code, 55-7B-8
• “[T]he general authority of the legislature to alter or repeal the common law is expressly conferred by article VIII, section 13 of the Constitution of West Virginia.” (citation and footnote omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).