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Id.; s ee Part I of “Certificate of Merit – 2017 in Review” for a discussion on whether claims lacking the requisite certificate of merit should be dismissed with or without prejudice.
The certificate of merit is required by CPLR 3012-a, which applies to medical, dental and podiatric malpractice actions. For the sake of brevity, our discussion of the statutory provisions is ...
The Washington Supreme Court held May 26 that the state's law requiring a certificate of merit for medical malpractice against state agents is facially unconstitutional. May 31, 2022 at 11:03 PM ...
About half of the states have certificate of merit or similar requirements for plaintiffs seeking to institute a malpractice suit. From the November 01, 2009 Issue of Renal and Urology News ...
The plaintiffs submitted a certificate of merit from an engineer, as required by Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 150.002 (Chapter 150) for professional malpractice claims.
The plaintiff’s case was dismissed because she failed to file a certificate of merit. Her attorneys appealed, and argued that the certificate of merit requirement is unconstitutional.