147.136 - SCOPE OF RECOVERY.
147.136 SCOPE OF RECOVERY.
In an action for damages for personal injury against a physician
and surgeon, osteopathic physician and surgeon, dentist, podiatric
physician, optometrist, pharmacist, chiropractor, or nurse licensed
to practice that profession in this state, or against a hospital
licensed for operation in this state, based on the alleged negligence
of the practitioner in the practice of the profession or occupation,
or upon the alleged negligence of the hospital in patient care, in
which liability is admitted or established, the damages awarded shall
not include actual economic losses incurred or to be incurred in the
future by the claimant by reason of the personal injury, including
but not limited to, the cost of reasonable and necessary medical
care, rehabilitation services, and custodial care, and the loss of
services and loss of earned income, to the extent that those losses
are replaced or are indemnified by insurance, or by governmental,
employment, or service benefit programs or from any other source
except the assets of the claimant or of the members of the claimant's
immediate family. Section History: Early Form
[C77, 79, 81, § 147.136] Section History: Recent Form
95 Acts, ch 108, §6; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §141
Referred to in § 668.14