Official Title: The Medical Liability Claimant's Compensation Amendment
Ballot Language: Proposes to amend the State Constitution to provide that an injured claimant who enters into a contingency fee agreement with an attorney in a claim for medical liability is entitled to no less than 70% of the first $250,000.00 in all damages received by the claimant, and 90% of damages in excess of $250,000.00, exclusive of reasonable and customary costs and regardless of the number of defendants. This amendment is intended to be self-executing.
Financial Impact Statement: The direct financial impact this amendment will have on state and local government revenues and expenditures cannot be determined, but is expected to be minimal. State agencies will incur some additional costs to comply with public records requirements of the amendment, but these costs will be generally offset by fees charged to the persons requesting the information.
personally i dont think a doctor should lose his license because of 3 malpractices...like everyone already said..whos to say it wasn't just a frivolous law suit.
for example i know a doctor who is on his 3rd law suit right now. none of them were for anything he did directly. this last one was because of a lady who fell in the delivery room in the bathroom and lost a baby. she sued him because she said she had a headache. who really knows what went on, but that doctor does not deserve to be sued. but considering miami dade has one of the highest rates of law suits, its expected.
there is also an amendment which allows patients to view a doctors history and records...if that amendment passes and the "3 strikes your out" does not, then all of those people who are scared of having a doctor with many malpractices can just check the records.
it is true though...if the 3 strike rule goes through we wont have any doctors left..at least here in miami, which is realllly scary.
MeggyLoo325
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personally i dont think a doctor should lose his license because of 3 malpractices...like everyone already said..whos to say it wasn't just a frivolous law suit.
for example i know a doctor who is on his 3rd law suit right now. none of them were for anything he did directly. this last one was because of a lady who fell in the delivery room in the bathroom and lost a baby. she sued him because she said she had a headache. who really knows what went on, but that doctor does not deserve to be sued. but considering miami dade has one of the highest rates of law suits, its expected.
there is also an amendment which allows patients to view a doctors history and records...if that amendment passes and the "3 strikes your out" does not, then all of those people who are scared of having a doctor with many malpractices can just check the records.
it is true though...if the 3 strike rule goes through we wont have any doctors left..at least here in miami, which is realllly scary.