Emergency Care Liability Relief Act
Latest action · May 26, 2005 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 26, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Emergency Care Liability Relief Act - Limits noneconomic and punitive damages for injuries arising from the provision of uncompensated care by emergency care providers.
Authorizes the award of attorney's fees and costs in actions in which a party's liability or such damages are contested. Requires liability for such awards to be allocated to the nonprevailing party personally, the attorney or law firm representing such party if representation was on a contingent fee basis, or both, taking into account specified factors.
Requires the court, in actions in which liability or noneconomic or punitive damages described in this Act are contested, to instruct the jury that it must take into account the effect of the amount to be awarded in damages on the price and availability of health care liability insurance.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 26, 2005Introduced in House
- May 26, 2005Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Civil actions and liability
- Commerce
- Contractors
- Damages
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Group medical practice
- Health
- Hospitals
- Juries
- Law
- Legal fees
- Liability (Law)
- Liability insurance
- Medical malpractice
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Physicians
- Punitive damages
- Social Welfare
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 26, 2005Introduced in House
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