Medical Malpractice

The California Legislature, on Thursday, voted 60-0 to send AB-35, a bill which will raise the non-economic damage caps in medical malpractice lawsuits, to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has indicated he will sign the bill into law. Since 1975, Californians who filed medical malpractice lawsuits could only recover up to $250,000 worth of non-economic damages …

Parents of a child with cerebral palsy at one time or another have found themselves wondering…could something that was done in the delivery room, have caused my child’s condition. A better question might be, did a mistake in the delivery room cause my child’s cerebral palsy? Many parents accept the condition as inevitable and move …