2025 bills / S.B. 335
S.B. 335 Medical Malpractice Revisions (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill would remove the requirement that patients file a sworn affidavit of merit before suing for medical malpractice. It would also cap the combined economic and noneconomic damages a claimant can receive, make plaintiffs pay a defendant's attorney fees and costs in certain cases, limit when medical facilities can be held liable, change prelitigation review panels, and require new data reporting.
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Official description
- with respect to a medical malpractice action:
- removes the requirement that a claimant submit an affidavit of merit
- establishes data collection and reporting requirements for the Division of Professional Licensing and the Administrative Office of the Courts
- addresses the calculation of noneconomic losses
- limits, subject to state constitutional protection, the combined amount to which a claimant is potentially entitled for economic and noneconomic losses
- obligates a plaintiff, in certain circumstances, to pay the reasonable attorney fees and costs incurred by a defendant
- precludes liability from attaching, in certain circumstances, to a medical facility, clinic, or organization
- amends the authority of prelitigation review panels and the process for conducting panel reviews
- makes technical changes
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