| 1 | Representative Grant offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 470 and 471, insert: |
| 5 | Section 11. Section 766.1025, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 6 | to read: |
| 7 | 766.1025 Attorney fees for medical negligence claims; |
| 8 | limitation on judgment against medical malpractice insurer.-In |
| 9 | any action for recovery of damages based on the death or |
| 10 | personal injury of any person in which it is alleged that such |
| 11 | death or injury resulted from the negligence of a health care |
| 12 | provider as defined in s. 766.202, an insurer providing medical |
| 13 | malpractice insurance coverage for the health care provider |
| 14 | shall not pay any total amount of attorney fees, excluding |
| 15 | costs, that exceeds 33 1/3 percent of the maximum amount |
| 16 | demanded or 33 1/3 percent of the amount of any offer of |
| 17 | admission of liability, settlement offer, or offer of judgment, |
| 18 | whichever is greater. |
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| 21 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 22 | Remove line 39 and insert: |
| 23 | negligence cases in the state; creating s. 766.1025, F.S.; |
| 24 | limiting the amount of attorney fees paid by medical |
| 25 | malpractice insurers in medical negligence actions; |
| 26 | amending s. 766.106, F.S.; |