Government Relations Report:
2013 Legislative Trends
Most of the nation’s legislatures have adjourned for the year, though
some will be in session this fall. This report will summarize and highlight some of the events and trends that were witnessed this during the
spring legislative session.
Medical Liability
While a number of bills addressing medical liability were introduced
this session, including those in Missouri which sought to reestablish caps on non-economic damages after the state’s supreme
court found them unconstitutional, relatively few became law. Of
significance, however, are bills in Georgia and Florida that became
law. Georgia HB 499, which had the support of both the state’s medical society and trial bar, prohibits, in the absence of supportive expert
testimony, federal payor guidelines, standards and criteria from being used to establish ne