130.953           Medical Liability Reform

130.953           Medical Liability Reform: 

MSSNY supports legislation which would allow physicians to carry 1^st tier insurance of $500,000/$1.5 million funded by physicians and that there would be a 2^nd tier insurance of $1.0 million/$3.0 million funded by an insurance pool – said pool to be funded by a fee on every health insurance policy sold in New York State.  To insure the survivability of such a fund, the reforms to include:

• Cap on non-economic damages of $250,000 per defendant with a total of $750,000.
• Medical Courts.
• A No-fault system for claims involving neurologically-impaired infants.
• Medical expert witness reform.

Certificate of merit reform.  (HOD 2011-51; Reaffirmed HOD 2016-61; Reaffirmed HOD 2019 in lieu of res 102)