Torts/Personal Injury,
Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
May 4, 2022
AB 35: Too little, too late
AB 35 appears to be an attempt to mollify plaintiffs’ attorneys and victims’ advocates by giving them one small piece of the pie.
Allen P. Wilkinson
Email: allenpwilkinson1955@gmail.com
Allen is a retired lawyer, with many years of experience involving personal injury and medical malpractice cases
In the early 1970s, medical malpractice liability insurers dramatically raised the premiums they charged their insureds, resulting in a “medical malpractice crisis.” Doctors were threatening, among other things, to leave the state, practice less risky medicine, practice defensive medicine, go bare, or even quit practicing medicine altogether. Some cynical doctors stated they planned on leaving the medical profession and becoming plaintiffs’ attorneys instead. The ins...
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