Health Care & Hospital Law
Mar. 8, 2011
Nurse Bill May Boost Malpractice Cases
A union-backed proposal to enforce nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in California hospitals could aid plaintiff's attorneys in malpractice suits.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
California's requirement that hospitals maintain certain nurse-to-patient ratios could gain new teeth if lawmakers pass a labor union-backed bill to give the state new powers to investigate and fine hospitals that flout those ratios.
Those investigations could bolster the claims of plaintiffs' attorneys who bring medical malpractice suits against hospitals, much in the same way that they do i...
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