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In November, voters will be asked to vote on Proposition 46, which contains three very different provisions. The first would quadruple the amount of certain damages in medical lawsuits, making it ...

Prop 46 is trying to do three main things: 1) Increase the amount you can sue a doctor for non-economic losses -- things like pain and suffering -- from $250,000 to $1.1 million, and then adjust that ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t like Proposition 30, and he’d like you to know that. To that end, he cut an ad against the ballot measure, as first reported by KCBS Radio San Francisco’s Doug ...

Research on the performance of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Fire Service is challenged by the ability to repeatedly and feasibly test new designs, interventions and wear trials in ...