Staff Reports – May 31, 2025 —Phew! Part Deux — Justice reform advocates and health care providers joined DeSantis on Thursday while he vetoed the ‘free kill’ bill (HB 6017). “The question is: What would this legislation do for the cost of health care in Florida, access to care in Florida, and our ability to […]
‘In my judgment, it would lead to higher costs for Floridians, it would lead to less access to care for Floridians’ May 30, 2025 By Jim Ash With a health-care executive and a medical malpractice defense attorney cheering him on, Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared Thursday in Southwest Florida to announce his veto of HB 6017. […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed a bill that would have restored some family members’ right to file suit after a loved one dies from medical negligence. The Florida Legislature this year approved House Bill 6017 by wide margins. The bill would have repealed a 1990 law […]
Says he’ll OK non-economic damages only with monetary limits. By: Christine Sexton – May 29, 2025 2:39 pm Sabrina Davis holds a picture of her father, Navy Veteran Keith Davis, who died because of medical malpractice. (Photo courtesy Sabrina Davis) The “free kill” repeal bill has been killed. Gov. Ron DeSantis stuck to his promise […]
Jesse Scheckner – May 29, 2025 A bill to repeal the unique Florida restriction derisively dubbed ‘free kill’ passed overwhelmingly in both legislative chambers. The Governor vetoed it Thursday. Following through on his mid-May vow to do so, Gov. Ron DeSantis has blocked bipartisan legislation that would have repealed a decades-old Florida law that critics […]
FLORIDA RECORD Florida Justice Reform Institute President William Large said tort reforms signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis could be replicated by governors in other states. | Florida Justice Reform Institute By Michael Carroll – May 6, 2025 Florida Republican representatives have made several attempts this year to roll back past tort reforms that […]
We put an end to the litigation abuse that drove rates ever higher. Now the market is stabilizing. By Paul Renner – May 2, 2025 4:00 pm ET A ‘For Sale’ sign outside a single-family home in Hollywood, Fla., Oct. 27, 2022. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Palm Coast, Fla. Floridians have faced major increases in […]
Florida Justice Reform Institute says it will request a veto. By: Christine Sexton – May 1, 2025 6:26 pm State Sen. Gayle Harrell says he’s been attacked via billboards for opposing liberalization of wrongful-death suits against doctors and hospitals without limiting potential monetary awards. (Screenshot, WPTV) The Florida Legislature on Thursday sent to Gov. Ron […]
Christine Sexton Thu, May 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM EDT State Sen. Gayle Harrell says he’s been attacked via billboards for opposing liberalization of wrongful-death suits against doctors and hospitals without limiting potential monetary awards. (Screenshot, WPTV) The Florida Legislature on Thursday sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis a bill that would put an end […]
House members in the Capitol on Friday attached a proposal to resurrect so-called “one-way attorney fees” to a Senate bill on phosphate mining. (AP Photo/Phil Sears) By Ron Hurtibise | rhurtibise@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel UPDATED: April 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM EDT In an effort to keep alive their bid to resurrect the […]