A U.S. appeals court in Florida determined that the state’s cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases does not violate the U.S. Constitution.

Florida officials have proposed a $300,000 cap on noneconomic damages in wrongful death cases.

The court issued this ruling in a case in which a woman died after childbirth while being cared for by a team working for the United States military, according to the Bureau of National Affairs. The workers were found to be negligent and the plaintiffs were awarded $2 million in noneconomic damages. When the court applied Florida’s statutory damages cap, the award was reduced to $1 million, which the plaintiffs appealed, arguing that the liability cap was unconstitutional.

The appeals court found that the cap “did not burden a fundamental right or draw a suspect classification and, therefore, was not subject to strict scrutiny or intermediate scrutiny upon review,” according to BNA.

Before it implemented the cap, the state Legislature found that the prices of malpractice insurance had jumped drastically, which in turn caused medical costs to surge. The court also ruled that the malpractice cap did not violate Florida’s Constitution under the “unlawful takings” clause.