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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Courts - Georgia joins Illinois in striking medical malpractice caps

On Feb. 4, 2010, the ILB had an entry headed "The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday found unconstitutional a state law capping non-economic damages in medical-malpractice cases."

And, as Alyson M. Palmer reports today in the Fulton County Daily Report in a story that begins:

By a 7-0 vote, the Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday struck down the state's caps on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases.

"The very existence of the caps, in any amount, is violative of the right to trial by jury," Chief Justice Carol W. Hunstein wrote in her opinion for the court.

Here is the opinion.

"A Bad Day for Tort Reform" is the headling to this WSJ Law Blog entry.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 23, 2010 11:10 AM
Posted to Courts in general