Government
Mass. tort reform bill gets panel's endorsement
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted May 10, 2004
The Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Insurance in late April endorsed a bill that physicians believe will help address some of their medical liability insurance problems. The legislation would hold physicians responsible only for their degree of fault in medical malpractice lawsuits, require that expert witnesses are licensed and board-certified in the same or a similar specialty as the accused physician, and implement a lower interest rate that, in the case of a plaintiff victory, is assessed on the award dating back to the time the claim was filed.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/05/10/gvbf0510.htm.