Kansas Malpractice Victims Coalition v. Bell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• commenting that Shade “upheld the validity of worker’s compensation legislation because coverage under the act was elective”
• finding that $1 million limit on medical malpractice recovery, with $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages, offended constitutional right to “remedy by due course of law,” where no quid pro quo provided
• rejecting argument that “removal of a remedy can be justified any time by public need”
• upholding the validity of a statute which eliminated vicarious liability in medical malpractice actions
• upholding the validity of a statute which eliminated vicarious liability in medical malpractice actions
• upholding the validity of a statute which eliminated vicarious liability in medical malpractice actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).