Both houses of the General Assembly have once again taken up legislation that would make inadmissible in medical malpractice lawsuits any admissions of liability that doctors and other health care providers make to patients while apologizing or extending "benevolent" gestures of compassion.
There are 36 states that have approved the apology laws in one form or another, said Samuel D. Hodge Jr., a professor and chair of the legal studies department at Temple University. Hodge has written on the state of apology laws along with his assistant Nicole Marie Saitta.
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