Glad you pointed out the current cap on non-economic damages is $500,000.  The Oregon Supreme Court's decision in the Horton vs. OHSU case (light reading at 114 pages) has got the whole dynamics of tort litigation in flux.  Cases that might have settled in the past (when the statutory cap on damages was presumed to be invalid) now have to be filed and litigated while the plaintiff's bar figures out how to present a cohesive and compelling case on appeal to get the court to strike down the cap on damages again using a different theory.  What does the right to a jury trial really mean in Oregon?  Is the jury's power to award damages unlimited?  May the legislature reasonably impose limits on jury awards?  These are questions which have not been finally answered yet.