Health Care & Hospital Law
Jan. 9, 2019
SB 1448: Doctors must disclose discipline for sexual misconduct
California is now the first state in the nation to require physicians to inform patients before treating them that they have been disciplined for sexual assault or other serious misconduct.
Molly M. McKibben
Partner
Greene, Broillet & Wheeler LLP
100 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica , CA 90407
Email: MMcKibben@gbw.law
Pepperdine Univ SOL; Malibu CA
Molly's trial practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, municipal liability, and products liability.
A new law makes a doctor's patients as important as their employers and malpractice insurers. California is now the first state in the nation to require physicians to inform patients before treating them that they have been disciplined for sexual assault or other serious misconduct.
Prior to the law being signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in September, doctors in California accused of wrongdoing such as assaulting patients or overprescrib...
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