Medical Malpractice
Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Behavioral Health Administration - Creation and Maintenance of Mental Health Professional Profiles (Patient Protection Provider Information Act) [HB-885]
Requiring the Behavioral Health Administration to create and maintain public individual profiles on specified mental health professionals that include specified information; requiring the Administration to provide a mechanism for the notification and prompt correction of factual inaccuracies in specified profiles; requiring the State Board of Physicians and the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists to provide promptly specified information to the Administration; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Haven Shoemaker
Hearing 2/23 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/23/2016
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Civil Actions - Noneconomic Damages - Catastrophic Injury [HB-869]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Sydnor
Hearing 3/02 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/02/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts [HB-814]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary; Withdrawn on 03/18/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Public Health - Provision of Life-Preserving Health Care Services (Vulnerable Protection Act) [HB-644]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony McConkey
Hearing 3/15 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/15/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Patient Safety Early Intervention Programs [HB-606]
Providing that a statement made by a party during a discussion held in accordance with a patient safety early intervention program is inadmissible as specified evidence in a health care malpractice proceeding or civil action; authorizing a hospital, a related institution, or an insurer that provides professional liability insurance to a health care provider in the State to establish a specified patient safety early intervention program; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Dumais
Hearing 3/22 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/22/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund [HB-377]
Establishing a system for adjudication of a claim involving a birth-related neurological injury; providing equitable compensation, on a 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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Hearing 2/12 At 1:00 P.m. (health And Government Operations And Judiciary) on 02/12/2016
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Maryland 2016 Regular Session
Health Care Provider Malpractice Insurance - Scope of Coverage [HB-1487]
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; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Barkley
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 210 on 04/26/2016
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Utah 2016 General Session
Nonpatient Cause of Action [HB-79]
Nonpatient Cause of Action
Sponsored by: Sen. Evan Vickers
Governor Signed In Lieutenant Governor's Office For Filing on 03/25/2016
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund [SB-585]
Establishing a system for adjudication of a claim involving a birth-related neurological injury; excluding specified rights and remedies of a claimant and specified other persons; providing for specified procedures; providing for specified benefits and compensation of a claimant under the Act; establishing the Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund; providing for specified premiums and insurance surcharges to be used to finance and administer the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Catherine Pugh
Hearing 3/05 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/05/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Health Care Provider Malpractice Insurance - Scope of Coverage [SB-569]
Repealing a prohibition on 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; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Delores Kelley
Hearing 3/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/04/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Civil Actions - Noneconomic Damages - Catastrophic Injury [SB-479]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Roger Manno
Hearing 2/25 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/25/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice Claims - Use of Clinical Practice Guidelines [SB-399]
Requiring a claim for damages due to medical injury to be referred to the Director of the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office to select an independent medical review panel if a defendant asserts as a defense that specified clinical practice guidelines apply and the defendant acted in accordance with the guidelines; requiring the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations establishing clinical practice guidelines for obstetrical and gynecological services; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Muse
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings; Withdrawn on 02/27/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Task Force to Study the Establishment of Health Courts [SB-188]
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 Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2015; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joan Conway
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 03/23/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice Claims - Notice of Intent [SB-143]
Requiring a claimant to send a notice of intent to file a claim to a health care provider at least 180 days before filing a claim with the Director of the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office against the health care provider for a medical injury; requiring the notice of intent to contain specified information and to be sent by certified and first-class mail; authorizing the Director to waive the notice requirement on motion and for good cause shown; applying the Act prospectively; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 02/23/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice - Certificate and Report of Qualified Expert - Objection [SB-127]
Establishing when objections to a certificate of a qualified expert or expert report must be filed in health care malpractice cases; and requiring a party to file a legally sufficient certificate of a qualified expert and report within 30 days after an arbitration panel chairman or the court rules a certificate or report legally insufficient.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lisa Gladden
Unfavorable Report By Judicial Proceedings on 02/23/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Maryland Home Birth Safety Act [SB-105]
Establishing a licensing and regulatory system for the practice of direct-entry midwifery under the State Board of Nursing; establishing the Direct-Entry Midwifery Advisory Committee; requiring the Board to set fees for the issuance and renewal of licenses; requiring continuing education, peer review, and data submission as a condition of license renewal; providing specified health care providers with specified immunity from civil liability; defining specified terms; subjecting the Act to the Maryland Program Evaluation Act; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Middleton
Hearing 2/11 At 1:00 P.m. on 02/11/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Maryland Licensure of Direct-Entry Midwives Act [HB-9]
Establishing a licensing and regulatory system for the practice of direct-entry midwifery under the State Board of Nursing; establishing the Direct-Entry Midwifery Advisory Committee; requiring the Committee, beginning on November 1, 2016, to submit a specified annual report to the Board; requiring the Department of Legislative Services, on or before December 1, 2016, to compile and analyze specified data, report on the data to specified committees of the General Assembly, and provide the data to the Board; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Approved By The Governor - Chapter 393 on 05/12/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Health Care Malpractice - Limitation on Noneconomic Damages [HB-817]
Decreasing a specified limitation on noneconomic damages in health care malpractice claims arising on or after October 1, 2015, to $500,000; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicholaus Kipke
Unfavorable Report By Judiciary on 03/18/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Health Care Provider Malpractice Insurance - Scope of Coverage [HB-724]
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 only in accordance with specified requirements; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sally Jameson
Hearing 4/01 At 1:00 P.m. on 04/01/2015
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Maryland 2015 Regular Session
Maryland No-Fault Injured Baby Fund [HB-553]
Establishing a system for adjudication of a claim involving a birth-related neurological injury; excluding specified rights and remedies of a claimant and specified other persons; providing for specified procedures; providing for specified benefits and compensation of a claimant under the Act; establishing the Maryland No-Fault Injured Baby Fund; providing for specified premiums and insurance surcharges to be used to finance and administer the Fund; etc.
Sponsored by: Sen. Nathaniel Oaks
Hearing 3/16 At 1:00 P.m. (health And Government Operations) on 03/16/2015