80.993 Collaboration with the Bar Association on Apology Legislation:
MSSNY will:
-support collaborative efforts with the American Bar Association (ABA) and the New York Bar Association to pursue legislation to protect statements of apology, confessions of regret, or admission of errors to patients and/or their families regarding less than anticipated clinical outcomes from being admissible as admission of liability;
-ask the American Medical Association to support collaborative efforts with the American Bar Association and its affiliates to pursue legislation to protect statements of apology, confessions of regret, or admission of errors to patients and their families regarding less than anticipated clinical outcomes from being admissible as admission of liability;
-utilize this collaboration and the American Bar Association policy that supports enactment of apology legislation to facilitate movement toward medical liability reform. (HOD 2009-55; Reaffirmed HOD 2019)
