TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a proposal that could lead to more medical-malpractice lawsuits, while a similar bill cleared a major hurdle in the Senate.
House members voted 104-6 to approve the bill (HB 6017), which involves wrongful-death lawsuits and what are known as “non-economic” damages for such things as pain and suffering.
The bill would repeal part of a 1990 law that prevents people from seeking non-economic damages in certain circumstances. People who are 25 years old or older cannot seek such damages in medical-malpractice cases involving deaths of their parents. Also, parents cannot seek such damages in malpractice cases involving the deaths of their children who are 25 or older…