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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Ind. Law - More on: Indiana malpractice cap may be challenged

Updating this ILB entry from Sept. 6th, the Indianapolis Star just posted this item that begins:

Attorneys for a widower who won an $8.5 million medical malpractice verdict against Community Hospital North have filed a lawsuit to challenge a state law that reduced the award to $1.25 million.

John Muller of Montross Miller Muller Mendelson & Kennedy and Mike Stephenson of McNeely, Stephenson, Thopy & Harold today in a news release announced the filing of the challenge in Marion Circuit Court.

They said their challenges is based on sections of the Indiana Constitution that a jury's decision must remain intact, and the General Assembly cannot grant privileges or immunities to any cititzen or class of citizens.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 16, 2009 10:12 AM
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