Civil Litigation,
Health Care & Hospital Law
Jun. 13, 2014
MICRA myths about keeping the current damages cap
Over the next five months leading up to the November election in California there will be a lot of myths and false information handed out by the opponents of the Patient Safety Act.
Bruce G. Fagel
Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & AssociatesPhone: (310) 516-9035
Email: brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Whittier College School of Law
Bruce G. Fagel is licensed to practice medicine and is founder of the Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates. He served as a consultant on medical malpractice law to the California Judicial Counsel Committee, which wrote the new CACI jury instructions. He can be reached at brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Over the next five months leading up to the November election in California there will be a lot of myths and false information handed out by the opponents of the Patient Safety Act, primarily because the medical establishment has $40 million to spend in an effort to defeat this ballot proposition. The Patient Safety act does three things: (1) It requires hospitals to perform random drug testing on doctors; (2) it requires doctors to check any existing computer database before prescribing...
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