JEFFERSON CITY --- Doctors from all over the state will descend upon the Missouri Capitol in their white coats on Wednesday, March 5, asking legislators to rein in lawsuits in an attempt to control medical liability insurance premiums.
Doctors will take a day off from their practices and travel to Jefferson City to ask lawmakers to enact a commonsense, bipartisan tort reform measure, the linchpin of which is a reasonable $350,000 limit on non-economic damages.
The Show Me Tort Reform Coalition, a statewide group of some 31 medical/health care organizations and Missouri business interests/associations, is supporting legislation that would restore the state's cap on damages that could be awarded for such non-quantifiable things as loss of enjoyment, pain and suffering, and loss of consortium in medical malpractice lawsuits.
The cap was lifted by a deeply-divided Supreme Court in 2012. That ruling eviscerated Missouri's successful tort reform law that was enacted in 2005.
The bills are SB 589, sponsored by Sen. Dan Brown, and HB 1173, sponsored by Rep. Eric Burlison.
The White Coat Rally Day will begin at 9:00 a.m. in rotunda of the first floor of the Missouri Capitol.
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