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VIRGINIA DOCTORS MARCH TO SUPPORT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE BILLS.

About 2,500 doctors marched on the Virginia Capitol Feb. 4 to show their support of two medical malpractice bills, SB 601, which would cap non-economic awards at $250,000, and SB 601, which would reduce the fees that can be collected by plaintiffs' lawyers in medical malpractice cases.

Virginia already is one of four states which has a total cap on damages, regardless of the injury. That cap is $1.7 million.

Robert Hall, a past president of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, said there had been no marked increase in the number of malpractice suits being brought in the state. He blamed insurers for increasing the doctors' premiums to recover losses on their investments because of the downturn in the stock market.

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