Legislation that would create an evidentiary rule that doctors' apologies to patients could not be used in medical malpractice lawsuits may lead to fewer such claims in Pennsylvania, several attorneys have told Pennsylvania Law Weekly.
The state Senate last month passed the Benevolent Gesture Medical Professional Liability Act, which would allow health care providers to make benevolent gestures prior to the start of medical malpractice lawsuits, mediations, arbitrations or administrative actions and not have those statements or gestures of contrition used against them.
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