Los Angeles–California’s 25-year-old cap on medical malpractice awards for pain and suffering trumps a 1986 federal law providing damages against hospitals that reject medically unstable patients, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled.
The question of whether a mother could collect $1.35 million for the death of her baby daughter has been closely watched by the plaintiffs’ bar as well as by the medical and insurance communities.
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