Prerequisites to commencement of action; presentation of claim to medical review panel
Applied in 42 court decisions — leading case Griffin v. Foley (2008)
Most recently applied in Rosemary Quillen, as Personal Representative of Patricia Cook v. Anonymous Hospital and Anonymous Physicians A, B, and C (March 2019)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.13.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 4. Notwithstanding section 1 of this chapter, and except as provided in sections 5 and 6 of this chapter, an action against a health care provider may not be commenced in a court in Indiana before:
(1) the claimant's proposed complaint has been presented to a medical review panel established under IC 34-18-10 (or IC 27-12-10 before its repeal); and
(2) an opinion is given by the panel.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.