Becker's Healthcare October 29, 2024
A physician in Tipton, Iowa, was recently found liable in a patient’s death after being sued by the patient’s daughter.
The plaintiff’s lawyer, Anthony Bribriesco, noted in an Oct. 23 report by CBS2 Iowa that he and his team have seen an increase in healthcare negligence across Iowa in recent years, and criticized a 2023 law that capped damages in wrongful death suits at $1 million.
While it is hard to quantify whether actual negligence has increased across healthcare, as Mr. Bribriesco describes, malpractice verdicts did hit an all-time high in 2023. There were 57 malpractice verdicts of $10 million or more last year, and more than half of those reaching $25 million.
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