JEWELL v. MALAMET

No. 77, September Term, 1990.

322 Md. 262 (1991)

587 A.2d 474

MARLENE K. JEWELL v. RAYMOND L. MALAMET.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 25, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Schneider (Day and Schneider, P.A., both on brief), Hagerstown, for appellant.

Conrad W. Varner (Karen J. Krask, Miles & Stockbridge, all on brief) Frederick, for appellee.

J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. and C.J. Messerschmidt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, amicus curiae, for MD Health Claims Arbitration Office.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW and KARWACKI, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr. and MARVIN H. SMITH, Judges of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially assigned.


CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.

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Some fifteen years ago the General Assembly of Maryland created an elaborate scheme for the arbitration of medical malpractice claims. It is set out in the Maryland Code (1974, 1989 Repl.Vol.) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article as subtitle 2A of title 3 under the heading "Health Care Malpractice Claims" (the Act).1 Starting in § 3-2A-01 with definitions, the...

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