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Medical Malpractice

• Complaints
  • Consumer Complaints: Health (WI State Law Library)
    Provides list of agencies, etc. where complaints related to health care may be registered.
• Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (WI Legislative Fiscal Bureau)
  Explains the Ferdon case and caps on non-economic and wrongful death.
• Medical Malpractice Resources (WI Legislative Reference Bureau, 2003)
• Medical Malpractice Law in the United States (Kaiser Family Foundation)
  Discussion of policy issues such as evaluation of adequacy of care, limits on damages & how damages should be paid, and statutes of limitations. Also contains proposals for statutory reform and trends in medical malpractice claims & payments.
• Medical Mediation
  • Medical Mediation Panels (WI Court System)
    Information about medical mediation panels, a process which all medical malpractice claims must go through before they can proceed to court.
  • WI Statutes: ch. 655, sub. ch. VI "Mediation System"
• Patients Compensation Fund (WI Office of the Commissioner of Insurance)
  The fund provides excess medical malpractice coverage for Wisconsin health care providers.
• Tort Actions and Civil Damages (WI Legislative Reference Bureau, 2001)

The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)

• WI Statutes: ch. 655 "Health Care Liability and Injured Patients and Families Compensation"
• WI Statutes: s. 893.55 "Medical Malpractice; Limitations of Actions; Limitations of Damages; Itemization of Damages"
• WI Statutes: s. 893.56 "Health Care Providers; Minors Actions"
• WI Admin. Code: INS 17 "Health Care Liability Insurance Patients Compensation Fund"
• Ferdon v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund

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Last Updated: October 17, 2012 | Up to Top