Health Care & Hospital Law
May 30, 2014
Who really benefits under MICRA?
The only people who truly benefit from the current law are insurance companies and big-time medical practitioners like hospitals.
Brian S. Kabateck
Founding and Managing Partner
Kabateck LLP
Consumer rights
633 W. Fifth Street Suite 3200
Los Angeles , CA 90071
Phone: 213-217-5000
Email: bsk@kbklawyers.com
Brian represents plaintiffs in personal injury, mass torts litigation, class actions, insurance bad faith, insurance litigation and commercial contingency litigation. He is a former president of Consumer Attorneys of California.
Here are two simple questions the medical community and its dark money source (the medical malpractice insurance industry) can't and won't answer: Why is the life of a child killed by medical negligence worth $250,000? And if $250,000 made sense in 1975, why doesn't its functional equivalent after decades of inflation make sense today?
Almost 40 years ago, the state Legislature capped medical malpractice noneconomic damages under the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Ac...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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