State's malpractice law challenged
By Kate Clements
Tuesday November 21, 2006
SPRINGFIELD – A suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court on Monday seeks to invalidate a state law limiting jury awards in medical malpractice cases.
The law allows unlimited economic damages to compensate for lost wages, medical bills and other associated expenses, but caps non-economic damage awards for pain and suffering, loss of life or limb, disfigurement and loss of companionship to $500,000 per doctor and $1 million per hospital.
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