Year in Review Column,
Torts/Personal Injury
Dec. 4, 2023
After a yearslong exodus, attorneys likely to return to medical malpractice
Modernized recovery laws provide new incentive for medical malpractice lawyers, and could change the legal landscapes of California and Nevada.
Alena Klimianok
Trial Attorney
Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team LLP
McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA
The past year was pivotal for the plaintiff bars of California and Nevada. Updates to decades-old laws governing medical malpractice in both states were finally enacted in 2023, raising the caps on noneconomic damages, increasing the contingency fees that can be collected, and lengthening the statute of limitations in Nevada.
The modernization of the laws provides better opportunities to secure resolutions that more accurately reflect the...
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