Smith v. Department of Ins.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a statute which limits full recovery of economic damages prevents a plaintiff from receiving the constitutional benefit of a jury trial
• finding that when procedural sections are directly related to substantive statutory scheme then those provisions do not violate separation of powers clause of Florida Constitution
• holding invalid statute placing cap on the recovery of non-economic damages in personal injury cases
• noting that the Legislature explained in the preamble of the act how tort reform provisions and the insurance regulatory provisions were \properly connected\ to the subject
• finding that a plaintiff has no right to recover for injuries beyond those caused by a particular defendant
• finding that statutes addressing the substantive rights of plaintiffs and defendants in civil litigation actions to recover damages did not encroach on the rulemaking authority of this Court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).