HOUSE BILL 06-1305 – Cert Review Profl Negligence Action

Concerned certificates of review.  It required the professional performing the review to consult “all” relevant documents and records – even those which had not been made available to the claimant.  Its clear purpose was to cause meritorious cases to be dismissed with prejudice purely because the defendant would play “hide the records” until the tight time limit for delivering a certificate of review to the court would pass.

HOUSE BILL 06-1282 – Economic Damages Out-of-pocket Losses

Proposed defining “economic loss” as out-of-pocket expenses only.  The Bill  originally would have used life insurance payments as an offset to any judgment against someone facing a wrongful death claim.  It also appeared to extinguish subrogation rights of health insurers and others providing benefits to the injured person.  A late amendment offered by those urging the Bill ’s passage would have entered the waters of services Bill ed and services paid – including the very murky issue of future and unknown service needs. 

HOUSE BILL 06- 1205 – Physician-patient Privilege Civil Action

Which would have overturned medical privacy of claimants

SENATE BILL 06-050 – Professional Review Health Care Provider

Would have created a conspiracy of secrecy, denying a patient all medical records consulted by a peer review or quality control effort. 

HOUSE BILL 06-1044 – Auto Claims Practice Third-party Injury

Let medical providers to be paid from a bodily injury liability policy – even before the injured person had received a single penny or had even reached a settlement with the at-fault party.