The Buffalo News recently reported that “now that the state budget was completed last week, the next couple of months will be a busy period of delivery and non-delivery for those who make a living lobbying in Albany.” Citing some of the issues, the piece notes that the Medical Society of the State of New York (“MSSNY”) “will again go head-to-head with trial lawyers over medical malpractice.” The two groups are at odds on major positions on the medmal front, such as caps on pain and suffering awards. So the MSSNY “is pushing a bill that would prevent comments a doctor makes during a peer review session about an incident or potential medical mistake from being used in lawsuits.”
The full article can be read here.