The Virginia General Assembly has overridden Gov. Bob McDonnell’s veto on a measure to increase the state’s cap on medical malpractice awards from $2 million to $3 million over the next 20 years.
“It gives predicatability, and it only gives a 2.5 percent increase,” said Del. Dave Albo, R-Fairfax. “It’s a pretty darn good solution.”
The measure marked a compromise between the Medical Society of Virginia, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association.
The governor, though, said that raising the malpractice cap to $3 million over the next twenty years, without further reforms in the medical malpractice litigation system, would not meaningfully protect against health care cost increases.
