Adams v. Children's Mercy Hospital

ROBERTSON, Chief Justice.

This appeal from a judgment in a medical malpractice suit challenges, among other things, the constitutionality of portions of this state’s legislative response to increases in the cost of health care services resulting from a perceived medical malpractice insurance crisis. We have jurisdiction. Mo. Const, art. Y, § 3. We conclude that the challenged provisions of Chapter 538, RSMo 1986, are constitutional. 1 The remaining issues are transferred to the Court of Appeals, Western District, for appellate review.

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