SB3248 - Tennessee: Evidence

Companion Bill HB3390. Evidence - Prohibits admissibility of an apology in a case involving medical malpractice. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *SB3248 / HB3390Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *SB3248 / HB3390 This bill prohibits the admission into evidence in a medical malpractice case of any statement expressing apology, fault, sympathy, commiseration, regret, condolence, compassion, error, or a general sense of benevolence that is made by a health care provider or an employee of a health care provider to an alleged recipient of an unanticipated health care outcome, or to the relative or representative of the alleged recipient, and that relates to the discomfort, pain, suffering, injury, or death of the alleged recipient as the result of the unanticipated outcome of medical care.[...]

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