Legal Opinion
Hanley v. Polanzak
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 16, 1979PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHale, C.J.
This medical malpractice case comes to us from the Superior Court on an interlocutory report under Mass.R.Civ.P. 64, 365 Mass. 831 (1974), of a question 2 following the judge’s conditional allowance of a motion to dismiss. The report is accompanied by a statement of agreed facts. The issue presented for our consideration is whether the plaintiffs failure to post a bond within thirty days of an adverse decision by a medical malpractice tribunal convened pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 60B, inserted by St. 1975, c. 362, § 5, 3 made mandatory the dismissal of her action even though no notice of the…
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