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Can Med-Mal Caps Be Bypassed?

By Janice G. Inman
April 23, 2004

As more and more states across the nation impose statutory caps on damages for non-economic injuries in medical malpractice cases, plaintiffs and their attorneys are seeing their options for compensation diminished. Attorneys are looking for ways to best help their injured clients, such as hurriedly filing claims before the imposition date of statutory caps and framing their cases as something other than medical malpractice. One such case was recently filed in Florida, in Palm Beach Circuit Court. The plaintiff, Julio Cordero, brought suit against the hospital at which he had surgery following a car accident.

The gist of the plaintiff's suit is this: As a Jehovah's Witness, Cordero is religiously opposed to blood transfusions and claims he refused to have one on religious grounds. Yet, at the hospital, Delray Medical Center, owned by hospital chain Tenet Healthcare Corp., plaintiff was administered a transfusion during his operation.

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