House to Take Up Med Mal Change

News Service Florida  Contributor The Florida House is scheduled to take up a proposal that would change a decades-old law and clear the way for more medical-malpractice lawsuits over patient deaths. The proposal (HB 6017), filed by Rep. Dana Trabulsy, R-Fort Pierce, and Rep. Johanna Lopez, D-Orlando, has sparked a lobbying battle, with plaintiffs’ attorneys and the senior-advocacy group, AARP, backing it and health-care and business groups opposing it. The bill would undo part of a 199