Juries in Indiana have awarded plaintiffs $1.21 million and $5 million in two medical malpractice cases, the Indianapolis Star reports. The verdicts stem from cases involving an unnecessary foot surgery and a miscommunication about X-rays which caused the plaintiff to lose a portion of her stomach. Awards of this size are rare in the state, the newspaper says, and will be reduced because of caps on medical malpractice awards. [Indianapolis Star]

This worries me. Here we have two cases where persons were injured, and a jury of their peers awarded “rare” high dollar verdicts.  Now caps are slashing those verdicts to coincide with legislation. If these verdicts are so “rare,” why are caps needed? Just another means by which someone does not achieve the justice they deserve.

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