Clay Yarborough has unfinished business in 2025 Session
Sen. Clay Yarborough will chair the Senate Judiciary Committee again, and is looking to land a bill that proved elusive in 2024 this coming year.
“One of the issues I worked on last year that we didn’t get resolution on was a wrongful death exception,” the Jacksonville Republican said.
SB 248 died in the Fiscal Policy Committee. It would have closed a loophole that currently stops the families of certain people over the age of 25 from suing for medical malpractice.
The so-called “free kill” loophole has been on the books for 34 years, Yarborough noted. And it “leaves a gap for those families” without legal options.
“It’s those families that then really have no avenue if there was a legitimat...
