RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 415 (HB 169) 2024 Regular Session Robby Carter
Existing law provides for civil liability actions against owners and operators of carbon
dioxide storage facilities and carbon dioxide transmission pipelines and generators of the
carbon dioxide being transported or stored by a facility or pipeline.
Prior law provided that the liability of these owners, operators, and generators for
compensatory damages for noneconomic losses was limited to $250,000 per occurrence,
except in cases of wrongful death, permanent and substantial physical deformity, loss of use
of a limb or bodily organ system, or permanent physical or mental functional injury, for
which the maximum amount recoverable for noneconomic losses was $500,000 per
occurrence.
New law changes the general limit on compensatory damages from noneconomic losses from
$250,000 per occurrence to $250,000 per person and changes the limit for the exceptional
cases from $500,000 per occurrence to $500,000 per person.
Prior law provided that if the liability limits under prior law were found to be
unconstitutional or invalid, the maximum amount recoverable for noneconomic losses would
then be limited to $1 million per occurrence.
New law changes the maximum amount recoverable for noneconomic losses in the event the
liability limits under new law are found to be unconstitutional or invalid from $1 million per
occurrence to $1 million per person.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends R.S. 30:1109(B))