Florida Medical Liability Compensation Amendment (2004)
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Florida Amendment 3, also known as the The Medical Liability Claimant's Compensation Amendment, was on the November 2, 2004 election ballot in Florida. It passed, with 63.6% of voters in favor.
- Yes: 4,583,164
- No: 2,622,143
It was on the ballot as an initiated constitutional amendment.
Six citizen-initiated amendments were on the 2004 ballot; they were respectively the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th citizen-initiated measures to appear on a Florida statewide ballot.
Text of the proposal
The language that appeared on the ballot:
Proposes to amend the State Constitution to provide that an injured claimant who enters into a contingency fee agreement with an attorney in a claim for medical liability is entitled to no less than 70% of the first $250,000.00 in all damages received by the claimant, and 90% of damages in excess of $250,000.00, exclusive of reasonable and customary costs and regardless of the number of defendants. This amendment is intended to be self-executing.
Campaign spending
The group opposing Amendment 3 outspent the group supporting Amendment 3 by a factor of about 3-to-1 with $8,234,777 coming from the "yes" side and $24,669,700 coming from the "no" side.
Supporters
Amendment 3 was sponsored by Citizens for a Fair Share. Sandra B. Mortham was the group's chairperson. Its major donors were:
- Florida Medical Association, $$2,155,961
- Citizens for Tort Reform, $439,630
- Tenet Healthcare, $105,000
- Baptist Health South Florida, $100,000
- Florida Cardiology, $100,000
- American Medical Association, $100,000[1]
Opponents
Amendment 3 was opposed by a group called Floridians for Patient Protection. Its major donors were:
- Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley: $1,051,450
- Brown, Terrell, Hogan, Ellis, McClamma & Yegelwel, $947,280
- Grossman & Roth, $700,000
- Coker, Myers, Schickel, Sorenson & Green, $665,000
- Pajcic & Pajcic, $635,000
- Maher, Guiley Maher, $625,000
- Krupnick Campbell Malone et al, $550,000
- Ferraro and Associates, $520,000
- Harrell & Johnson, $420,000
- CFS Inc. $370,000
- Levin Papantonio $325,000
- Bbbitt Johnson Osborne, $310,000
- Leesfield, Leighton, Rubio, Mahfood & Boyers, $300,000
- Haggard Parks Haggard & Bologna, $297,600
- Rossman Baumberger Reboso & Spier, $290,000
- Cohen Jayson & Foster, $280,000
- Lyal Reiter Clark Fountain & Williams, $275,000
- Podhurst Orseck $275,000
- Donald Hinkle, $270,000
- Leopold Ricci, $260,000[1]
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