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Medical Malpractice Lawyers: What is the Medical Malpractice Tort Reform?

September 12, 2022

The Tort reform entails measures to control medical malpractice expenses, discourage medical mistakes, and guarantee that patients wounded by medical negligence receive just compensation. The Maryland Medical Lawyers can ensure you get the compensation you deserve. Turn to us when you don’t kn[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Cap On Noneconomic Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 25, 2021

The Supreme Court of Missouri, in its opinion issued on July 22, 2021, upheld Missouri’s cap on nonecnomic damages in Missouri medical malpractice cases, stating, “Because a medical negligence action is a statutorily created cause of action, the General Assembly had the legislative autho[...]

Former Tort Reform Advocate Files Iowa Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

May 24, 2021

71-year-old Sam Clovis, a 2014 candidate in the Iowa Republican Senate primary, one of the national co-chairs of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and a former senior White House adviser to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who was known as a vocal advocate for medical malpractice tort [...]

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.”[...]

Survey Finds Tort Reforms Lead To Less Jury Trials; Jury Trials Still Preferred Over Arbitration

January 27, 2021

An article appearing on December 11, 2020 in the Louisiana Law Review entitled “Reasons for the Disappearing Jury Trial: Perspective from Attorneys and Judges” that reported on a survey of 1,460 attorneys and judges (173 judges (70% state and 30% federal) and 1,282 attorneys (63% who han[...]

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[...]

Oregon Supreme Court Holds $500,000 Cap On Noneconomic Damages Is Unconstitutional

July 14, 2020

In its opinion filed on July 9, 2020, the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon (“Oregon Supreme Court”) held: “ORS 31.710(1), as a limit on the noneconomic damages that a court can award to a plaintiff, violates Article I, section 10.” The Underlying Facts The plaintiff had t[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Affirms Reduction Of Medical Malpractice Verdict From $4.5M To $1.25M

July 12, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated May 28, 2020: “we conclude that the trial court erred in refusing to consider the plaintiffs’ constitutional issue. But because we also conclude that the statutory cap on noneco[...]

Proposed New York Legislation Would Repeal Recently Enacted Ill-Advised Nursing Home Immunity Law

June 14, 2020

Stated within the April 2020 New York budget bill known as the Emergency Or Disaster Treatment Protection Act, commonly referred to as “30-D,” were provisions that relaxed record-keeping requirements and immunized health care providers, including nursing home operators, from criminal and[...]

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[...]

250 Nursing Home Resident Advocacy Organizations Implore U.S. Senate To Avoid Granting Immunity To Nursing Homes

June 11, 2020

In a letter dated May 28, 2020 addressed to the leaders of the U.S. Senate, 250 organizations throughout the United States that advocate on behalf of the 1.3 million nursing home residents in the United States implored the U.S. Senate “to strongly oppose granting immunity to nursing homes duri[...]

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