Governor Ritter signs Senate Bill 66

Senate Bill 07-066 was signed by Governor Ritter on Thursday, March 22, 2007. Senate Bill 66 was sponsored by Senator Ken Gordon and Representative Alice Madden. SB 66 allows guardians of persons with disability, whose medical malpractice cases go to trial, have the same rights, op­tions and obligations as far as in­vesting the verdict money as they would have had if the case had been settled. SB 66 cures an in­equity of the law that treated these two similar classes of peo­ple quite differently depending upon whether they were forced to trial or not.