California law limits/caps the amount of monetary damages for pain and suffering in lawsuits that can be awarded to victims of medical malpractice at $250,000.
How Personal Injury Attorneys are Paid
Medical Malpractice Caps Unfair to Poor
Exceptions to the Medical Malpractice Cap
This law has been in effect since 1975, and has definitely limited the number of medical [...]
Consumer Affairs
Kaiser Permanente faces a class action lawsuit in California filed by personal injury victim rear-ended in traffic accident. Former patient says that insurance company failed to refund co-payment after victim collected under personal injury award. Plaintiff in the case suffers small, individual damages, but class action status of lawsuit could possibly affect thousands of [...]
Bizjournals.com, NC
Provisions of a bill on medical malpractice that would have eased caps on court damages in lawsuits were removed Monday by Colorado’s House Judiciary Committee, which then approved what was left of the bill in a 7-5 vote. Although stripped of its …
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Wall Street Journal
A page-one article in the Wall Street Journal about him said that about 120 malpractice lawsuits were filed against him, alleging chronic pain and other damages. Efforts to reach him through the hospital and its then-parent company were unsuccessful.
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