Sections
24 entriesSection 3333Sets damages for breach of an obligation not arising from contract, unless the Code expressly provides otherwise, at the amount compensating for…Section 3333.1Allows a defendant in a professional-negligence personal-injury action against a health care provider to introduce evidence of specified Social Security, disability, workers’…Section 3333.2Limits noneconomic damages in professional-negligence cases filed or arbitrations demanded from January 1, 2023, to $350,000 per applicable personal-injury category and $500,000…Section 3333.3Bars a plaintiff in a negligence damages action from recovering any damages when the plaintiff’s injuries were proximately caused in any way…Section 3333.4Bars recovery of noneconomic motor-vehicle damages by a person convicted of specified impaired-driving offenses, an uninsured vehicle owner, or an operator unable…Section 3333.5Requires qualifying public-utility crude-oil pipeline corporations to bear strict liability for specified spill damages and immediately clean up leaks. Exempts specified war,…Section 3333.7Allows a person injured by a commercial-motor-vehicle driver to recover treble damages from the driver’s employer when the driver was under the…Section 3333.8Exempts qualifying prescribed fires and cultural burns from specified fire-suppression and related costs when the burn has an authorized purpose, approved written…Section 3334Sets damages for wrongful occupation of real property to include use value for up to five years before the action, reasonable repair…Section 3335Sets damages for willfully holding over real property after termination of a qualifying guardianship, trust, or life-based estate, without consent of the…Section 3336Sets presumed damages for wrongful conversion of personal property as either the property’s value at conversion plus interest or the amount needed…Section 3336.5Requires a junk dealer or recycler possessing specified public-agency or utility materials without required written authorization to pay actual damages plus treble…Section 3337Bars a person whose possession of property was wrongful from the beginning from defeating the preceding statutory presumption merely by later applying…Section 3338Limits conversion damages for a person holding only a lien on personal property, when the converter has a superior right after discharge…Section 3339Establishes that state-law protections, rights, and remedies generally apply regardless of immigration status, except federally prohibited reinstatement, and that immigration status is…Section 3339.5Limits use of a minor child's immigration status in liability and remedy determinations, except employment-related prospective injunctive relief that would directly violate…Section 3339.10Bars consideration of a person’s immigration or citizenship status in specified landlord-tenant and housing-rights liability or remedy issues and generally prohibits discovery…Section 3340Allows exemplary damages for wrongful injury to animals that are property when the injury is committed willfully or by gross negligence in…Section 3341Requires an animal’s owner, possessor, or harborer to pay damages and suit costs when the animal, on another person’s premises, kills, worries,…Section 3342Establishes dog-owner liability for damages when a dog bites a person in public or lawfully on private property, regardless of prior viciousness…Section 3342.5Requires a dog owner after a human bite to take reasonable steps to remove danger from future bites and allows specified persons…Section 3343Allows a person defrauded in a property purchase, sale, or exchange to recover the value difference plus specified transaction losses, including qualifying…Section 3343.5Allows sellers, secured parties, lenders, lessors, buyers, purchasers, lessees, and actual or purported transferees or assignees who suffer damage proximately caused by…Section 3343.7Allows rescission or damages against a qualifying nonprofit retailer cooperative wholesaler when a person was fraudulently induced to join through material misrepresentation…