Should charitable care be exempt from malpractice?

Virginia is tackling the physician shortage problem by offering malpractice immunity:

Parties in the debate call it the most significant matter taken up by justices regarding medical malpractice since 1990, when the court upheld the state’s limit on malpractice awards.

If successful, tax-exempt physician foundations in Virginia employing about 1,200 doctors and supporting the state’s three medical schools could win malpractice immunity.

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