Health Care & Hospital Law,
California Courts of Appeal,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 10, 2017
Health care reform and medical malpractice
Pending legislation in Congress and a recent Court of Appeal decision have created uncertainty as to what evidence can be introduced in medical malpractice cases.
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
The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, and replace it with something called the American Health Care Act. This comes only one week after the California Court of Appeal decided that evidence of ACA benefits are admissible in a medical malpractice case as an offset for future medical care costs. Cuevas v. Contra Costa County, 2017 DJDAR 4018 (April 27, 2017). Because of the announced deliberate pace ...
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