File Code: Civil Actions and Procedures
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 287
- Sponsored By:
-
The President (By Request - Administration) and Senators Astle,
Brinkley, Dyson, Greenip, Hafer, Harris, Hooper, Jacobs, Kittleman,
Pipkin, and Schrader
- Entitled:
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Maryland Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act
Setting a limit of $500,000 on noneconomic damages in medical
malpractice injuries; specifying what may be included in a claim for
noneconomic damages; creating procedures relating to offers of
judgment; apportioning specified costs; etc.
Senate Action
- 1/23
- First Reading Judicial Proceedings
- 2/11
- Hearing 3/4 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/23
- Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
House Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- President of the Senate
- Administration
- Senator John C. Astle, District 30
- Senator David R. Brinkley, District 4
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Janet Greenip, District 33
- Senator John J. Hafer, District 1
- Senator Andrew P. Harris, District 7
- Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
- Senator Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Senator Robert H. Kittleman, District 9
- Senator E. J. Pipkin, District 36
- Senator Sandra B. Schrader, District 13
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ATTORNEYS
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- COURT COSTS
- DAMAGES
- FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
- JUDGMENTS
- JURIES -see also- GRAND JURIES
- LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
- MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
- WRONGFUL DEATH
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
3-2A-01 ,
3-2A-05 ,
3-2A-06 ,
3-2A-08.1 ,
3-2A-08 ,
3-2A-09 ,
3-2A-09 ,
3-2A-10 ,
11-108 ,
11-108 ,
11-109 ,
11-109
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
None offered