Medical Malpractice
Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Medical Professional Liability Insurance Policies - Mandated Deductible Levels - Limitation [HB-162]
Limiting the requirement that insurers that issue or deliver medical professional liability insurance policies in the State offer, in addition to the basic policy, additional policies with certain deductibles to insurers that issue or deliver a policy with an annual premium of $5,000 or more.
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Gettr Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Health Care Malpractice Claims (Life Care Act 2019) [HB-1323]
Requiring a certain award or verdict for future medical expenses to be based solely on average Medicare reimbursement rates in effect on the date of the award or verdict for the locality in which the care is to be provided; requiring a certain award or verdict for future medical expenses for hospital facility services to be based on certain rates; requiring a certain award or verdict for future medical expenses for nursing facility services to be based on a certain rate; etc.
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund [HB-1320]
Establishing a system for adjudication of a claim involving a birth-related neurological injury; providing for certain benefits and compensation of a claimant under the Act; establishing the Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund to provide compensation and benefits to eligible claimants; providing for certain premiums and insurance surcharges to be used to finance and administer the Fund; requiring the Maryland Patient Safety Center to convene a certain Perinatal Clinical Advisory Committee; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
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Maryland 2019 Regular Session
Public Health - Healthy Maryland Program - Establishment [HB-1087]
Providing that the General Assembly finds that all State residents have a right to health care; providing it is the intent of the General Assembly to establish a comprehensive universal single-payer health care coverage program and a health care cost control system; establishing Healthy Maryland as a public corporation and a unit of State government to provide comprehensive universal health coverage for every State resident; requiring Healthy Maryland to provide certain services for residents of the State by January 1, 2021; etc.
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Hawaii 2019 Regular Session
Relating To Medical Malpractice. [SB-904]
Limits medical malpractice liability for residents and fellows in accredited residency and fellowship programs acting under the supervision of a licensed physician.
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Hawaii 2019 Regular Session
Relating To Medical Malpractice. [SB-825]
Limits medical malpractice liability for residents and fellows in accredited residency and fellowship programs acting under the supervision of a licensed physician. Takes effect on 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2019 Regular Session
Relating To Medical Malpractice. [HB-669]
Limits medical malpractice liability for residents and fellows in accredited post graduate residency and fellowship programs acting under the supervision of a licensed physician.
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Arizona Fifty-fourth Legislature
Medical malpractice; obstetrics; burden; proof [HB-2711]
Medical malpractice; obstetrics; burden; proof
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Utah 2019 General Session
Consent for Medical Procedure Amendments [SB-188]
Consent for Medical Procedure Amendments
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Utah 2019 General Session
Health Care Malpractice Act Sunset Extension [SB-29]
Health Care Malpractice Act Sunset Extension
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts [SB-849]
Establishing the Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts; requiring the Task Force to study the adequacy and cost of State laws and policies relating to the litigation of medical malpractice cases and make recommendations regarding the establishment of health courts to hear medical malpractice cases and the feasibility of assigning a medical malpractice case to a single judge throughout the litigation process; requiring the Task Force to report to the General Assembly by December 31, 2016; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Insurance - Rate Filings - Trade Secrets [SB-839]
Establishing the confidentiality, under specified circumstances, of information that an insurer files with the Maryland Insurance Commissioner as proprietary rate-related information; requiring the Commissioner, if the Commissioner makes a specified determination, to give an insurer specified notice of a determination and to make specified material open to specified public inspections; requiring the People's Insurance Counsel Division to maintain the confidentiality of specified proprietary rate-related information; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Public Health - Provision of Life-Preserving Health Care Services (Vulnerable Protection Act) [SB-691]
Prohibiting health care practitioners and health care facilities from denying patients life-preserving health care services requested by a specified person on the basis of a specified view or disagreement; authorizing specified persons to file an action for an injunction in a specified court under specified circumstances; authorizing a health care practitioner, under specified circumstances, to provide specified reasons as a defense to an action filed under a specified provision of the Act; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Medical Malpractice - Discovery [SB-636]
Establishing that a defendant in a claim filed with the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office may seek discovery as to the basis of a certificate of a qualified expert filed by the claimant or plaintiff without prejudice to later discovery if the attesting expert is designated as a trial expert; prohibiting a deposition of a defendant health care provider from being required until the claimant has filed and served a specified certificate of a qualified expert; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Noneconomic Damages - Catastrophic Injury [SB-574]
Altering the maximum amount of noneconomic damages that may be recovered in health care malpractice and other civil actions for a catastrophic injury under specified circumstances; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Medical Malpractice - Notice of Intent to File Claim [SB-566]
Prohibiting a claim against a health care provider for damage due to a medical injury from being filed with the Director of the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office unless, at least 90 days before filing the claim, the claimant has given a notice of intent to file a claim to the health care provider; requiring the notice to include specified information and to be served on the health care provider at a specified address; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Offers of Judgment [SB-565]
Making provisions of law relating to an offer of judgment in an action for a medical injury applicable to all civil actions; altering a specified definition; and applying the Act prospectively.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund [SB-513]
Establishing a system for adjudication of a claim involving a birth-related neurological injury; providing equitable compensation, on no-fault basis, for a limited class of catastrophic injuries that result in unusually high costs for custodial care and rehabilitation; establishing the Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund to provide compensation and benefits to eligible claimants; providing for specified premiums and insurance surcharges to be used to finance and administer the Fund; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Health Care Provider Malpractice Insurance - Scope of Coverage [SB-450]
Authorizing the inclusion, in a policy that insures a health care provider against damages due to medical injury arising from providing or failing to provide health care, of coverage for the defense of a health care provider in a specified disciplinary hearing if the cost of the included coverage is itemized in the billing statement, invoice, or declarations page for the policy and reported to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner in a form and manner required by the Commissioner.
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice Claims - Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office - Repeal [HB-992]
Repealing provisions of law relating to the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office; terminating the Health Claims Arbitration Fund; requiring the clerk of a court to forward to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene copies of specified pleadings and certificates of a qualified expert; requiring the Department to forward to the State Board of Physicians copies of specified pleadings and certificates of a qualified expert; etc.