Abstract
AMONG the major reforms in recent years in the field of medical malpractice has been the establishment of interprofessional screening panels designed to review and eliminate frivolous and unsupportable claims. Before the insurance crisis of 1975, only a few states had experimented with review panels.1 Most of the panels were informal, and their decisions nonbinding. Twenty-one states now have screening systems of various types. Most can make binding decisions, at least to the degree of requiring plaintiffs to present their cases to the panels before a court trial can be obtained. The panel's determination is not controlling, but its finding . . .
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