Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 498

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: claims for loss of society and companionship in medical malpractice cases. (FE)

Damage _personal injury_ Family Medical malpractice

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, as stated in

Estate of Wells v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center

, 183

Wis. 2d 677 (1994), a parent does not have the right to recover for the loss of society

and companionship of an adult child who dies as the result of medical malpractice.

This bill provides that a parent does have the right to recover for loss of society and

companionship if the parent's adult child dies as the result of medical malpractice,

and the adult child had not reached the age of 27 when he or she died.

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Judiciary and take up, Ayes 35, Noes 61

Failed 35–61 Jan 12, 2016 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

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