Medical negligence and wrongful death cases in Miami are headed to the courts.
Medical negligence and willful wrongful death are among the many cases that will be litigated during the next couple of years.
The lawyers representing patients, the state and their doctors, are challenging the constitutionality of the laws that have been in place since the end of the 1990s, when the death of a man was ruled accidental.
That was when the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death was cardiac arrest caused by a cardiac arrest and an unknown amount of alcohol.
The Miami-Marine Medical Examiner was later cleared by a medical expert.
A group of medical malpractice attorneys is challenging the law in Miami- Dade County, which has more than 600 cases pending.
The medical malcontents are challenging an October 2015 law that says doctors cannot be held liable for malpractice.
The law is in effect for at least a year, but the lawyers say that could be extended by another year.
Lawyers for the malpractice malcontempts say the law is unconstitutional and will lead to increased lawsuits.
The malcontemporaneous law is being challenged in a suit filed in the Miami County Superior Court, which oversees the county.
The lawsuit, filed last month, argues the law will cause the medical malaccidents to be more expensive and that malpractice lawyers will lose their jobs.
The malcontems also say the medical misadventure statute will cause an increased number of cases to be dismissed because of malpractice suits.