A bill with a panoply of untried malpractice reforms, such as investigating attorneys who file too many frivolous lawsuits and doctors who get sued too often, passed the North Carolina Senate and will go to the House in May.
The North Carolina Medical Society says it is disappointed with SB 802. The group says the bill does not call for a cap on non-economic damages, limits on attorney's contingency fees and elimination of double recoveries, and that its provision for installment payments for jury awards does not go far enough.
Senators who developed the new bill told the Raleigh News & Observer that a cap would not pass constitutional muster because it would limit payouts.
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