California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Hughes v. Pham, E052469 (Cal. App. 2014):
"To the extent a specific statute is inconsistent with a general statute potentially covering the same subject matter, the specific statute must be read as an exception to the more general statute." (Salazar v. Eastin (1995) 9 Cal.4th 836, 857.) Because section 3333.2 places a cap on the total recovery of noneconomic damages from health care providers, it is the more specific statute, and we read it as an exception to section 1431.2.9
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