No one has been able to show whether Utah’s prelitigation panels have had a meaningful impact on weeding out frivolous cases or reducing the number of medical malpractice cases filed.
after it had been in effect for just a year, finding it caused an unconstitutional delay in people’s ability to access the courts.
“The procedure does not foster settlement,” one attorney wrote in a survey response. “It only gives the medical provider more protection by the mandated steps required before litigation can be pursued. It is another way for medical providers to avoid liability. I believe it should be done away with.”
“I have heard from both plaintiffs and counsel for defendants that the process is effective in achieving early discovery of the issues, long before the formal procedures that take place in court,” he said. He added that the process is worthwhile “if for no other reason than it accelerates information-sharing.”
He said attorneys typically move forward because they have reviewed medical records and consulted an expert — and believe they can win. He also pointed out that panel members weigh in before plaintiff attorneys have all the evidence they will seek to support their case, since the disclosure of documents happens after a case gets into court.
“It’s an impediment put into place to create one more barrier for that access to the court,” he added. In Utah’s small medical community, it’s likely that these people know each other or went to school together. He has no plans to bring future legislation to eliminate the prelitigation panels, he said in a recent interview.Lancaster said she left her prelitigation panel meeting hurt after one member asked her questions that she perceived as blaming her for being assaulted. She had trusted Martin for care for more than three years, she said, and when he allegedly assaulted her, it caused “a wound I can’t even explain.
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