Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Jun. 13, 2014
MICRA myths about keeping the current damages cap
Over the next five months leading up to the November election in California there will be a lot of myths and false information handed out by the opponents of the Patient Safety Act.
Bruce G. Fagel
Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & AssociatesPhone: (310) 516-9035
Email: brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Whittier College School of Law
Bruce G. Fagel is licensed to practice medicine and is founder of the Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates. He served as a consultant on medical malpractice law to the California Judicial Counsel Committee, which wrote the new CACI jury instructions. He can be reached at brucefagel@fagellaw.com
Over the next five months leading up to the November election in California there will be a lot of myths and false information handed out by the opponents of the Patient Safety Act, primarily because the medical establishment has $40 million to spend in an effort to defeat this ballot proposition. The Patient Safety act does three things: (1) It requires hospitals to perform random drug testing on doctors; (2) it requires doctors to check any existing computer database before prescribing...
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