House Committee Approves Med Mal Cap
|By Steven Brostoff, Washington Editor
|NU Online News Service, March 5, 10:00 a.m.EST?The House Energy and Commerce Committee late yesterdayapproved legislation that would place a $250,000 cap onnon-economic damages in medical malpractice cases.
|The action came on a voice vote, and no amendments were adopted.The House Judiciary Committee, which held a hearing on thelegislation yesterday, is expected to approve the legislationtoday.
|If so the legislation, H.R. 5, could be considered on the floorof the House next week.
|Insurance groups strongly support H.R. 5, arguing that runawaymedical malpractice litigation is largely responsible for dramaticincreases both in liability insurance and health insurance.
|Opponents of the legislation, however, say that the "crisis" inmedical malpractice liability is caused by insurance industrypractices, and not by problems in the civil justice system.
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