Bashant of Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn examines characteristics of medical battery cases in California and reforms health-care providers can consider to avoid such scenarios.

Without the tort reform for medical malpractice cases, doctors bear the brunt ... Now it seems everyone wants to follow in the steps of California's tort reform, whose caps on malpractice awards for ...

First, SB 176 would cap attorney’s fees. In medical malpractice cases ... SB 176 adopts the California model, capping attorney fees at 25% of the money awarded if the case is settled, and ...