Patients Embrace Legislative Deal to Update Malpractice Cap, Forestall Ballot Fight on Fairness for Injured Patients Act in November says Consumer Watchdog
The families said the legislation would eliminate the need for the Fairness for Injured Patients Act to go before voters in November 2022.
- The families said the legislation would eliminate the need for the Fairness for Injured Patients Act to go before voters in November 2022.
- ScottOlsen, a board member for Consumer Watchdog, became a proponent of the Fairness for Injured Patients Act after the cap reduced a $7 million verdict for his son's lifetime of blindness and disability to $250,000.
- "If the legislaturefully enacts the meaningful reforms in this proposed comprise before June 29th, I will agree to withdraw the Fairness for Injured Patients Act from the ballot,"Olsensaid.
- And doctors will be free to apologize to patients and even acknowledge mistakes without their apology being held against them in court.