Medical Malpractice
- Complaints
- Consumer Complaints: Health (WI State Law Library)
Provides list of agencies, etc. where complaints related to health care may be registered.
- Consumer Complaints: Health (WI State Law Library)
- Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund (WI Legislative Fiscal Bureau)
Explains the Ferdon case and caps on non-economic and wrongful death. - 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"
- Medical Mediation Panels (WI Court 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
Search for more statutes, regulations & opinions.
Related Topics
Law Review Articles
- Arbitration of Medical Malpractice Claims
Mississippi College L Rev 28.1 (Fall 2008) - Mediation and Medical Malpractice
Jnl of Legal Medicine 29.3 (Jly-Sept 2008) - Non-economic-damage Award Caps in Wisconsin
Wis L Rev 2009.1 (Jan-Feb 2009) - Wisconsin Supreme Court's Latest Foray into the Medical Malpractice Thicket
Wis L Rev 2007.5 (Sept-Oct 2007)