Panel passes $750,000 cap on ‘non-economic’ damages in fatal medical malpractice cases

Republicans on a Senate committee have voted to place new limits in medical malpractice cases that involve the death of a patient. A bill that cleared a Senate committee this week would set $750,000 as the new cap on so-called “non-economic” damages that a family, children or spouses could receive. Senator Zach Whiting, a Republican […]