Now this is the kind of legislation I like. Not only does it institute caps for businesses that range beyond medical institutions/practices, it also has rules to reform the court proceeding processes (although the article doesn’t flesh those out, unfortunately). Caps are very nice, but I always felt they’re only part of the solution.

And, for the patients’ rights advocates, any doctor with three or more malpractice claims against them gets investigated. That ought to silence a lot of the med-mal horror stories about cases where a practitioner gets a slew of complaints against them.

Unfortunately, this bil passed by a very thin margin. Med-mal legislation has failed before with more support in other states, so I’m simultaneously hopeful and cynical about its prospects.