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Senate advances compromise medical malpractice bill with $450,000 cap and affidavit-of-merit requirement
Summary
The Senate advanced a third substitute of Senate Bill 145 to limit non-economic damages at $450,000 and require affidavits of merit after pre-litigation panels. Sponsors said the measure narrows nonmeritorious suits while opponents pressed for safeguards and for the stand-down agreement to be memorialized.
Senator Adams, the bill sponsor, urged colleagues to support a third substitute of Senate Bill 145 designed to narrow nonmeritorious medical-malpractice litigation while preserving relief for meritorious claims.
“This bill puts a hard cap … and leaves it at $450,000,” Adams said on the floor, summarizing the substitute’s core provisions and explaining that it removes the inflationary element from the existing cap.
The third substitute also requires an affidavit of merit after the pre-litigation panel process; the affidavit must be provided by a healthcare…
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