In 2003, the Texas state legislature passed House Bill 4, which amended Chapter 74 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. This bill, later codified as the Texas Medical Liability Act, made sweeping changes to the way in which medical malpractice cases, also called health care liability claims, can be brought before a court of law.
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A “responsible third party” is defined as “any person who is alleged to have caused or contributed to causing in any way the harm for which recovery of damages is sought, whether by negligent act or omission, by any defective or unreasonably dangerous product, by other conduct or activity that violates any applicable legal standard, or by any combination of these.”[1] As such, its application casts a broad net over virtually all forms of personal injury litigation.
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A statute of limitations sets a specific amount of time following an injury or accident for a person or company to file a lawsuit and seek a remedy. Once the time specified by the statute has passed, a claim concerning the accident or injury is barred.
A loss of consortium claim is one for damages caused by deprivation of family relationships suffered by family members of a person killed or injured by another’s negligent or wrongful acts.
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