During a routine hysterectomy, Annette’s surgeon unknowingly sliced her bowel. Diligent post-operative care would have revealed this problem, but for over 36 hours the nurses failed to report her abnormal vital signs. An infection spread throughout her body, causing her to go into septic shock. Failure to diagnose her condition led to the amputation of her arms and legs. The MICRA cap prevents Annette from holding the hospital accountable for her multiple near-death experiences, and from being able to afford the continued physical therapy, prosthetics, and treatment she needs.

When he was two years old, Steven fell in the woods. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors merely gave him steroids. His parents, knowing something was wrong, asked repeatedly for a CAT scan but it was denied. Steven was comatose the next day. The doctors who denied his CAT scan had failed to detect a growing brain abscess that left him blind and brain damaged. A jury awarded Steven $7 million to compensate for his lifetime of blindness and disability, but the cap set in 1975 by politicians and never adjusted cut the award to $250,000. Both of Steven’s parents have had to quit their jobs to care for him full-time.

The City of Los Angeles is dropping its lawsuit against the software company PricewaterhouseCoopers, accused of being responsible for the LADWP overbilling scandal. City Attorneys accused of conflicts of interest are refusing to testify which the city has made it difficult to pursue the case. Jamie Court says this is a cover-up and that the city wants to shut the case down to prevent public awareness of the level of fraud in LADWP and the City Attorney's office.

A newly filed proposed CA ballot initiative would give injured patients more money in med-mal lawsuits.