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In 2005, Illinois passed a law to cap noneconomic damages in medical malpractice suits. Today, the state’s Supreme Court struck down the law.<\/p>\nIn 2005, Illinois passed a law to cap noneconomic damages in medical malpractice suits. Today, the state’s Supreme Court struck down the law.<\/p>\n
The court said the law that established caps — $500,000 in cases against doctors, and $1 million in cases against hospitals — violated the separation of powers clause in the state’s constitution. <\/p>\n
Two previous laws imposing malpractice caps had previously been struck down by the state’s high court, the Chicago Tribune notes<\/a>. State lawmakers had tried to narrow the law this time, to give it a better shot of withstanding judicial scrutiny, the Trib says. The court struck down the previous caps law in 1997.<\/p>\n “Without a cap on non-economic damages from 1997 to 2005, Chicago physicians saw their liability premiums increase an average of 10 to 12 percent each year,” the president of the AMA said in a statement today. “When the cap was reinstated in 2005, premiums for Chicago physicians stabilized and even began to shrink.”<\/p>\n Image: iStockphoto<\/em><\/p>\n In 2005, Illinois passed a law to cap noneconomic damages in medical malpractice suits. Today, the state’s Supreme Court struck down the law. The court said the law that established caps — $500,000 in cases against doctors, and $1 million in cases against hospitals — violated the separation of powers clause in the state’s constitution. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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