CARBONDALE -- Carbondale Mayor Brad Cole wants to take the state's medical malpractice insurance crisis into his own hands. With reform bogged down in the Illinois Legislature, Cole wants to tap the city's home rule powers to keep Carbondale malpractice cases in Jackson County, preventing lawyers from seeking a more sympathetic venue. He also proposes capping non-economic damages -- so-called "pain and suffering" awards -- to three times the actual economic loss to the plaintiff.
Posted by Editor at June 14, 2004 03:35 AM