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Government
Dec. 17, 2019
Proponents of higher medical malpractice damages cap kick off campaign
Often fighting back tears, proponents of an initiative to raise California’s 44-year-old cap on non-economic medical malpractice damages kicked off their signature gathering campaign Monday.
SACRAMENTO — Often fighting back tears, proponents of an initiative to raise California’s 44-year-old cap on non-economic medical malpractice damages kicked off their signature gathering campaign Monday.
The Fairness to Injured Patients Act, billed as FIPA, would raise the $250,000 cap to about $1.2 million. That limit was established in 1975 in the form of the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, better known as MICRA. The prop...
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