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Lawmakers Pass Limited Medical Liability Bill, MMS Vows to Continue Push for More Adequate Reform

by Tom Walsh

Having achieved only limited success in their efforts to persuade state lawmakers to reform the Massachusetts medical liability system, MMS leaders vowed to push on with their campaign to overhaul a "broken" system that has forced some physicians to leave practice and threatened to further curb patient access to care.

The state legislature was poised to adjourn in July, having enacted, as an amendment to the state budget bill, just one tangible reform -- a reduction in the prejudgment interest rate from 12 percent to a floating rate tied to the financial markets. But even at that, this only applies to malpractice cases filed after July 1. The new law also sets up a study commission to research the liability system, with a report due by next Feb. 15. more

 

 
 
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