Bill Text: IA HF517 | 2021-2022 | 89th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to noneconomic damage awards against health care providers.(See HF 592.)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-18 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 592. [HF517 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2021-HF517-Introduced.html
House
File
517
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Introduced
HOUSE
FILE
517
BY
A.
MEYER
and
FRY
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
noneconomic
damage
awards
against
health
1
care
providers.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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517
Section
1.
Section
147.136A,
subsection
2,
Code
2021,
is
1
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
2.
The
total
amount
recoverable
in
any
civil
action
for
3
noneconomic
damages
for
personal
injury
or
death,
whether
4
in
tort,
contract,
or
otherwise,
against
a
health
care
5
provider
shall
be
limited
to
two
hundred
fifty
thousand
one
6
million
dollars
for
any
occurrence
resulting
in
injury
or
7
death
of
a
patient
regardless
of
the
number
of
plaintiffs,
8
derivative
claims,
theories
of
liability,
or
defendants
in
9
the
civil
action
,
unless
the
jury
determines
that
there
is
10
a
substantial
or
permanent
loss
or
impairment
of
a
bodily
11
function,
substantial
disfigurement,
or
death,
which
warrants
a
12
finding
that
imposition
of
such
a
limitation
would
deprive
the
13
plaintiff
of
just
compensation
for
the
injuries
sustained
.
14
EXPLANATION
15
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
16
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
17
Under
current
law,
the
limit
for
the
total
amount
18
recoverable
for
noneconomic
damages
for
personal
injury
or
19
death
against
a
health
care
provider
in
a
civil
action
is
20
$250,000,
unless
the
jury
determines
that
there
is
substantial
21
or
permanent
loss
or
impairment
of
a
bodily
function,
22
substantial
disfigurement,
or
death,
which
warrants
a
finding
23
that
imposition
of
such
a
limitation
would
deprive
the
24
plaintiff
of
just
compensation
for
the
injuries
sustained.
25
This
bill
increases
the
cap
from
$250,000
to
$1
million
and
26
removes
the
exception
to
the
cap.
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