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Senate restores hospital liability cap under Governmental Immunity Act; SB 53 passes
Summary
The Utah Senate passed SB 53 to restore a $250,000 cap on certain claims against state-run hospitals, with sponsors saying the change aligns hospitals with other state agencies and discourages large lawsuits; the bill passed final reading 27–2.
The Utah Senate on its seventeenth day approved Senate Bill 53, an expansion clarifying the scope of the Utah Governmental Immunity Act to restore a liability cap for some state-run hospitals.
Sponsor Senator Barlow, who presented the bill on the floor, said the measure “restores the cap and have[s] them operate as all other state agencies,” arguing the change discourages large lawsuits and prevents hospitals from having to buy expensive commercial umbrella insurance. He told colleagues that the institutions have historically handled losses up to $250,000 and that the cap “does,…
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