Juries in Indiana have awarded plaintiffs $1.21 million and $5 million in two medical malpractice cases, the Indianapolis Star reports. The verdicts stem from cases involving an unnecessary foot surgery and a miscommunication about X-rays which caused the plaintiff to lose a portion of her stomach. Awards of this size are rare in the state, the newspaper says, and will be reduced because of caps on medical malpractice awards. [Indianapolis Star].
I have said before and will say again, caps are a disservice to the nation. These two persons (or their families) have been unfairly punished by statutory caps. Regardless, there are no caps in Tennessee, yet.
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