{"id":758,"date":"2012-03-26T03:41:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T03:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:06:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:06:16","slug":"change-to-conn-medical-malpractice-law-in-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Change to Conn. medical malpractice law in dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Associated Press\u00a0 March 24, 2012\u00a0 HARTFORD, Conn.\u2014\u00a0 State lawmakers are moving ahead with legislation they say will fix a problem with Connecticut&#8217;s medical malpractice law that has kept some legitimate lawsuits out of the courts, despite heavy opposition from the medical industry.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThe current law, enacted in 2005, forces people who want to sue health care providers to get an opinion from a similar provider supporting their malpractice allegations before they can file their lawsuits. If plaintiffs don&#8217;t submit such an opinion with their lawsuits, or the opinion doesn&#8217;t meet the requirements, judges can dismiss the cases before the merits are even heard.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/statewire\/hc-ap-ct-medicalmalpracticmar24,0,4981208.story\">Read more<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press\u00a0 March 24, 2012\u00a0 HARTFORD, Conn.\u2014\u00a0 State lawmakers are moving ahead with legislation they say will fix a problem with Connecticut&#8217;s medical malpractice law that has kept some legitimate <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=758\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[106,104,84],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-connecticut-center-for-patient-safety","tag-jean-rexford","tag-tort-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}