Civil Litigation,
Law Practice,
Health Care & Hospital Law
May 17, 2017
Signed into law in 1975, MICRA reform is long overdue
Clearly, the law has not kept pace with inflation. Indeed, in 1975, the median price home in California cost $41,600. Today, the median price home costs $516,000 — a 1,140 percent increase.
Mark B. Simowitz
Mark B Simowitz APCPersonal injury
591 Camino De La Reina Ste 525
San Diego , CA 92108-3139
Phone: (619) 525-9998
Fax: (619) 873-4077
Email: mark@simowitz.com
California Western School of Law
Mark is a personal injury attorney in San Diego.
In a California hospital, a 2-year-old boy is found not breathing and his fingernail beds are turning blue. His mother can hear the code blue being called from the adjacent room where her son was to have an MRI of his left wrist. She runs into the room and sees the frantic staff vigorously performing CPR on his tiny body. They finally get a pulse but not until after severe permanent brain damage is done.
It turns out, he was negligently given an overdose of anesthesia because the doc...
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