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Senate panel offers new malpractice plan

Published 12/02/04

While a roomful of doctors looked on yesterday, a Senate panel proposed increasing Medicaid payments to doctors and making it harder - and less rewarding - for injured patients to sue them.

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The commission was finishing its report just as next year's malpractice insurance premiums came due yesterday.

In an effort to reduce premiums, the senators agreed their bill would reduce the maximum that could be awarded for pain and suffering and put a cap on it for three years.

The proposal also would require mediation in all cases and prohibit any attorney who files three frivolous malpractice cases within five years from filing...

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