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Originally Posted by dbussone
The same is true of many hospitals, especially public hospitals, that receive legislative relief or very limited malpractice caps.
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It is not at all common and the situation with Shands in Gainesville and Jacksonville as well at Jackson Memorial in Miami, as far as I know, is unique to our state. The cap of 200,000 amazingly is not for public hospitals but rather for private hospitals that also are teaching hospitals. However the protections do not cover all the teaching hospitals in Florida. Additionally this seems to be the only law anywhere that includes a cap on your economic loss, not just non-economic loss. This is important. Non economic things are pain, suffering, scars, disfigurement, loss of companionship. Economic are.. they took out your good kidney not your bad one. Now you can't work, lifetime of dialysis, lots of $$ meds and doctor visits 200K is gone in no time. No other state has caps on economic losses.
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