Litigation
Jun. 18, 2013
MICRA reform push aims at lawmakers, public
The Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 hit tort lawyers hard, imposing a $250,000 limit on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice suits. Now attorneys are pushing to raise the cap through the ballot box.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Few reforms have hit California's tort lawyers harder than the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975, or MICRA. The law, one of the first of its kind in the nation, imposed a limit of $250,000 on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice suits. That ceiling has dramatically reduced the value of such cases for plaintiffs and their attorneys, and despite legislative efforts and impact cases to ...
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