{"id":1089,"date":"2012-12-26T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:09:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:09:33","slug":"two-anti-patient-medical-malpractice-bills-pass-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/two-anti-patient-medical-malpractice-bills-pass-in-michigan.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Anti-Patient Medical Malpractice Bills Pass In Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Michigan this month passed two bills reforming medical malpractice rules, and the consumer winds up the loser in that state. Ironically, the legislation was part of a &#8220;Patients First Reform Package.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Senate Bill 1115 limits the amount of malpractice damages that can  be awarded to victims, and it passed with a wide margin, namely a 108-2 vote in the  state Senate.<\/p>\r\n<p>Senate Bill 1118 decreases the time limit that a person or  family has for suing on someone who is deceased, and also bars prejudgment interest on attorney fees and costs. It flew through the Senate in a 107-3 vote, according to Michigan Live Media Group.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/12\/two_medical_malpractice_bills.html\">http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2012\/12\/two_medical_malpractice_bills.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Mag Mutual, a medical professional liability insurer, also issued a press release on the legislation, which benefits its industry.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbwire.com\/press-releases\/senate-makes-crucial-malpractice-ruling-in-michigan-reports-mag-mutual-190687.htm\">http:\/\/www.sbwire.com\/press-releases\/senate-makes-crucial-malpractice-ruling-in-michigan-reports-mag-mutual-190687.htm<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>The two anti-patient bills that passed were criticized by Marc Lipton, the Southfield attorney who is president of the Michigan Association for Justice, a trial lawyers group.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed that the Legislature spent all this time on bills that were designed to protect insurance companies and ultimately would endanger patients,&#8221; Michigan Live Media Group quoted him as saying.<\/p>\r\n<p>Exactly so.<\/p>\r\n<p>There were actually four malpractice bills under consideration in Michigan, and only two of them made it to a vote. Of the bills that didn&#8217;t make it, one sought to expand the types of health care professionals that can be sued for medical malpractice. The Senate approved it but it never made it to a vote in the Senate.<\/p>\r\n<p>The other bill, left hanging in committee, mandated that a medical facility and or health care professional couldn&#8217;t be sued for malpractice &#8220;if the doctor acted with reasonable and good-faith belief that the conduct was well-founded in medicine and the patient&#8217;s best interests,&#8221; Michigan Live Media Group reported.\u00a0 \u00a0 <br \/> <br \/><br \/> <br \/> <br \/> <br \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan this month passed two bills reforming medical malpractice rules, and the consumer winds up the loser in that state. Ironically, the legislation was part of a &#8220;Patients First Reform Package.\u201d Senate Bill 1115 limits the amount of malpractice damages that can be awarded to victims, and it passed with a wide margin, namely a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,607,606],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice-reform","tag-michigan-medical-malpractice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}