{"id":149344,"date":"2026-04-22T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/22\/lasik-malpractice-plaintiff-convinced-a-jury-to-award-seven-times-a-damages-capmdashand-got-to-keep-it\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:57:20","slug":"lasik-malpractice-plaintiff-convinced-a-jury-to-award-seven-times-a-damages-capmdashand-got-to-keep-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/22\/lasik-malpractice-plaintiff-convinced-a-jury-to-award-seven-times-a-damages-capmdashand-got-to-keep-it\/","title":{"rendered":"LASIK Malpractice Plaintiff Convinced a Jury to Award Seven Times a Damages Cap—and Got to Keep It"},"content":{"rendered":"

“While the lost future earnings awarded to [the] plaintiff are perhaps uniquely high, [the] plaintiff’s projected future earnings and earnings capacity are uniquely high,” the judge reasoned.<\/p>\n

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“While the lost future earnings awarded to [the] plaintiff are perhaps uniquely high, [the] plaintiff’s projected future earnings and earnings capacity are uniquely high,” the judge reasoned.<\/p>\n

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“While the lost future earnings awarded to [the] plaintiff are perhaps uniquely high, [the] plaintiff’s projected future earnings and earnings capacity are uniquely high,” the judge reasoned. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “While the lost future earnings awarded to [the] plaintiff are perhaps uniquely high, [the] plaintiff’s projected future earnings and earnings capacity are uniquely high,” the judge reasoned. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/legal-news-gzOzcF.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}