The political deal ensures California's cap on medical malpractice awards will increase but without a bruising ballot measure battle in November.
Cash payments in California medical malpractice cases would go up for the first time in nearly five decades under a deal between rival interest groups announced Wednesday that avoids a costly battle at the ballot box in November.
“I never thought this would happen,” said trial attorney Nick Rowley, who bankrolled the effort to gather voter signatures for placing a measure on the ballot. “I never thought we would work out a legislative solution.” The deal reached after several weeks of intense negotiations between attorneys and doctors groups would raise the legal cap on pain and suffering awards to $350,000 beginning Jan. 1. That amount would gradually increase over a 10-year period to $750,000.
The agreement will be contained in amendments to Assembly Bill 35 and co-authored by Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes and state Sen. Tom Umberg .
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