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Senate Rejects Award Limits in Malpractice
May 8, 2006
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Source: Sheryl Stolberg
The Senate on Monday once again rebuffed a Republican effort to limit jury awards in medical malpractice cases, taking the issue — a high priority for both President Bush and the majority leader, Senator Bill Frist — off the agenda for this year.

In back-to-back votes, Republicans fell far short of the 60 senators necessary to proceed on two malpractice-related measures. The first would have capped jury awards in all lawsuits against doctors and health care institutions; the second would have applied caps only to cases involving obstetricians, who have been especially hard-hit by malpractice rates. The bills would have limited payments by individual doctors to $250,000 in malpractice cases and capped payments by health care institutions at $250,000. In cases that involved more than one institution, the total maximum jury award would have been $750,000.



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