VENTURA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A cap on noneconomic damages for certain health care lawsuits doesn’t apply to instances of elder abuse at a psychiatric hospital, a California court has ruled.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - California’s strict medical-malpractice law with a one-year statute of limitations and limiting noneconomic damages to $250,000 doesn’t apply in the case of a mental hospital accused of allowing one of its workers to sexually abuse patients, an appeals court ruled.