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Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawyers, Hospitals Argue Over Maryland Medical Malpractice Data And Tort Reforms

January 23, 2022

The Chairmen of the Maryland Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and House Appropriations Committee’s “Report on the Fiscal 2021 State Operating Budget (SB0190) and the State Capital Budget (SB0191) and Related Recommendations” required the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) to fu[...]

New Book Sheds Light On Failed Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms

May 2, 2021

The Cato Institute released a new book on April 29, 2021 entitled “Medical Malpractice Litigation How It Works — Why Tort Reform Hasn’t Helped” that “compiles decades of real‐world data to shatter persistent myths that surround the debate over “med mal” reform.”[...]

Texas Appellate Court Applies Heightened Standard Of Care In Dismissing Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

March 7, 2021

In a Texas medical malpractice case decided by the Texas Court of Appeals, Third District, at Austin (“Texas Appellate Court”) on February 10, 2021, the plaintiff argued that the trial court erred in determining that the medical care the defendants provided to treat her post-C-section he[...]

Alabama Governor Signs Into Law Health Care Provider Coronavirus Immunity Bill

February 14, 2021

On February 12, 2021, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law Alabama Senate Bill 30, adding Alabama to the growing number of states that have enacted civil immunity laws benefiting health care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. In signing into law the health care provider coronavirus imm[...]

Virginia Senate Bill Would Eliminate Current Limitations On Medical Malpractice Damages

January 15, 2021

On January 13, 2021, Senate Bill 1107 was offered that is entitled “Limitation on recovery in certain medical malpractice actions,” which would eliminate the cap on the recovery in actions against health care providers for medical malpractice where the act or acts of malpractice occurred[...]

Maryland Hospital Association Supports Proposed “Maryland Health Care Heroes Protection Act” That Would Vastly Expand Health Care Immunity

December 10, 2020

A proposed change to Maryland medical malpractice law, which is supported by the Maryland Hospital Association, would have the effect of “altering the definition of “health care provider” for purposes of certain provisions of law governing catastrophic health emergencies to include an empl[...]

California Voters Will Decide In November 2022 If Unfair $250K Limit On Medical Malpractice Damages Will Be Changed

October 2, 2020

California voters will have the chance in November 2022 to modify the 45-year-old $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in California medical malpractice cases that in 2020 is worth only $50,768 in 1975 dollars, and which disproportionately impacts Black and brown Californians. The California Secretar[...]

Illinois Supreme Court Holds EMS Act Does Not Provide Immunity To Ambulance Driver On Way To Pick Up Nonemergency Patient

July 29, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of Illinois (“Illinois Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 18, 2020 that section 3.150 of the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act (EMS Act) (210 ILCS 50/3.150 (West 2016)) does not provide immunity from liability to an ambulance owner and i[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case For Failure To Provide Proper Presuit Notice

July 25, 2020

The Georgia Court of Appeals Fifth Division (“Georgia Appellate Court”), in its opinion dated June 11, 2020, affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiff’s Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit, holding “both of Brown’s [plaintiff’s] ante litem notices failed to indicate the[...]

Tennessee Supreme Court Rules Unlicensed Doctor Unqualified To Testify In Medical Malpractice Case

June 12, 2020

In its opinion filed on April 20, 2020, the Supreme Court of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Supreme Court”) held that “under Tennessee Code Annotated section 29-26-115(b), a doctor, who was permitted to practice medicine in Tennessee under a statutory licensure exemption but wa[...]

U.S. Medical Malpractice Statistics

May 20, 2020

According to the American Medical Association (AMA), 34% of all physicians in the United States have been sued for medical malpractice during their medical careers. Almost half of U.S. physicians who are 55 and older have been sued for medical malpractice, and nearly 30% have been sued two or more t[...]

Texas Supreme Court Discusses Proper Application Of Statutory Reductions Of Medical Malpractice Jury Verdicts

May 15, 2020

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”), in its opinion dated May 8, 2020, discussed the proper method of applying the required statutory reductions of a Texas medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff where some of the defendants settled before trial [...]

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