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Sep. 27, 2019
Another ballot measure proposed to end medical negligence damages cap
Consumer Watchdog filed a new ballot measure Thursday to make a frontal assault on the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, known as MICRA, a 1975 law capping non-economic medical negligence damages at $250,000, long hated by plaintiffs’ attorneys.
MICRA, meet FIPA. Consumer Watchdog filed a ballot measure Thursday to make a frontal assault on the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, known as MICRA, a 1975 law capping non-economic medical negligence damages at $250,000, long hated by plaintiffs’ attorneys.
The Fairness for Injured Patients Act, proposed for the 2020 ballot, could enjoy two advantages that a previous effort, Proposition 46, lacked in 2014: money and a frien...
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