File Code: Tort Reform
Prior Year Introduction As: HB 967/95 - JUD
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 454
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Harkins, Jacobs, Bonsack, Holt, Klima, Owings, and Walkup
- Entitled:
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Health Care Malpractice Claims - Attorneys' Fees
Establishing a 180-day period after a health care provider files a
response to a health care malpractice claim in which the provider may
deliver to the claimant a statement accepting responsibility for the
claim and specifying a certain amount that the health care provider is
willing to pay; and prohibiting a health care provider from contesting
liability if a claimant accepts a statement filed under the Act.
House Action
- 2/2
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/27 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/4
- Unfavorable Report by Judiciary
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate James M. Harkins, District 35A
- Delegate Rose Mary Hatem Bonsack, District 34
- Delegate Kenneth Holt, District 6
- Delegate Nancy Jacobs, District 34
- Delegate Martha S. Klima, District 9A
- Delegate George W. Owings, III, District 27B
- Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ATTORNEYS -see also- LEGAL AID, STATE'S ATTORNEYS
- CIVIL ACTIONS -see also- SMALL CLAIMS
- FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
- HEALTH OCCUPATIONS
- LIABILITY -see also- GOOD SAMARITAN
- MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
- PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL PERSONNEL
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Courts and Judicial Proceedings
- (
3-2A-07A
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
Amendments:
None available
