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Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill to increase medical malpractice awards for pain and suffering. California gets new rules covering medical malpractice payments. Here's what will change
Florida joined that list in 2014 when the Florida Supreme Court struck down its cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases involving wrongful death. [5] California law does not include any provision to adjust the cap for inflation, so it has remained at $250,000 since it was enacted in 1975.
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Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra, No. 23-10326 (5th Cir., June 21, 2024) is a legal case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, finding certain aspects of the preventive services mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be unconstitutional.
A 2011 study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 75% of physicians in "low-risk" specialties and virtually 100% of physicians in "high-risk" specialties could expect to face a malpractice claim during their careers. However, the authors also noted that the vast majority of malpractice claims did not lead to any indemnity payments.
A Philadelphia jury ordered doctors to pay former Eagles special-teams captain Chris Maragos $43.5 million on Monday in a medical malpractice lawsuit related to treatment for a career-ending injury.
None of the patients were told about the experiment, nor did the doctors ask for their consent. See Eileen Welsome's book The Plutonium Files. [10] Doctors' Trial: United States 1946 German medical doctors went on criminal trial for Nazi human experimentation. See The Years of Extermination. Guatemala syphilis experiments: U.S./ Guatemala 1946–48
September 18, 2024 at 9:19 AM (Reuters) - British drugmaker GSK said on Wednesday it had agreed to settle two lawsuits in California that claimed its discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer.