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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government

May 4, 2022

Bill to cap medical malpractice damages sails through committee

AB 35 would lift the caps in the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 in a series of steps beginning next year.

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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