Survivors of Medical Negligence Qualify Ballot Initiative for 2022 Election
"COVID-19 has put the many racial disparities in our society front and center," said
Johnson's 39-year old wife Kira died during childbirth at Cedars Sinai when her bladder was lacerated during a C-section and her symptoms negligently ignored for 10 hours while she bled out.
The empirical evidence is overwhelming that people of color receive a lower standard of care and are subjected to high rates of preventable medical errors, regardless of income or educational attainment. One Brookings InstitutionĀ study (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/10/21/6-charts-showing-race-gaps-within-the-american-middle-class/)Ā found that a Black woman with an advanced degree is more likely to lose her baby during childbirth than a white woman with less than an eighth-grade education.
In
"Demi and Malakhi could have been saved if her doctor, who had harmed many other women, had been held accountable sooner. But the 45-year-old cap on compensation when mothers and their babies die makes it almost impossible for families like ours to get justice in the courts," said
The Fairness for Injured Patients Act would adjust for inflation the maximum
If passed, the initiative would allow judges and jurors to decide that compensation above
"It's time for voters to get a chance to change this unjust 45-year-old law and give injured patients and their families a chance to hold the medical insurance complex accountable for its negligence and malfeasance," said
Olsen's son Steven was only two years old when he was rendered blind and brain-damaged due to medical negligence. Twenty-three years ago, a
"We will bring this issue to voters so they can change the fundamental unfairness that exists for
"The cap means my daughter will never be fairly compensated for everything she has lost. In two years, voters will get the chance to change these 45-year-old restrictions on our civil rights and rectify almost half a century of injustice," said
Today,
Almost every major newspaper editorial board in
"In 2022 it will be 47 years since the value of human life and catastrophic injury was capped at
Opposition to limits on fair compensation by juries is a part of the
While the fight at the ballot box is pushed to
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