A bill to amend California’s decades-old cap on medical malpractice damage sailed through its first legislative test on Tuesday.
AB 35 would lift the caps in the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 in a series of steps beginning next year. It passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 11-0. The bill’s lead author, Assemblywoman Eloise Gomez-Reyes, D-San Bernardino, called it “long overdue.”
The bill results...
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