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Florida Statute 768.42 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 768
NEGLIGENCE

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F.S. 768.042

768.042 Damages.—In any action brought in the circuit court to recover damages for personal injury or wrongful death, the amount of general damages shall not be stated in the complaint, but the amount of special damages, if any, may be specifically pleaded and the requisite jurisdictional amount established for filing in any court of competent jurisdiction.

History.—ss. 8, 9, ch. 75-9; s. 161, ch. 2020-2.

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