July 2015 Newsletter

California Patients Prevail in Latest MICRA Challenge Months after California voters expressed continued support for long-standing and effective medical liability laws by rejecting Proposition 46, legal challenges continue to threaten access to patient care. Late last...

Another legal hit for medical malpractice caps in Florida

The case started with a dental assistant who went into surgery for carpal-tunnel syndrome and ended up suffering a perforated esophagus. Now, nearly eight years later, the case could be another blow to a controversial 2003 law that limited the amounts of money injured...

Medical liability damages cap upheld

The nation’s leading medical liability reform law has been upheld yet again in a California court of appeal, with the court finding that the state’s cap on noneconomic damages is constitutional. It’s another victory to ensure physicians can afford to stay in practice...