March 6, 2014
(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers March 3, 2014)
The Kansas Legislature might just learn a lesson from the Kansas Medical Society.
While the Legislature is still waiting on the Supreme Court ruling on the school finance case—a decision that could cost the state more than $440 million—it’s interesting to see how the “real world” deals with the court.
Remember just two years ago when the court, in a split decision, held that the then-20-year-old cap on noneconomic damages in a medical malpractice case was constitutional, but very practically low in the real world?