MountainView Hospital, Inc. v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada ex rel. County of Clark

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

In this petition for extraordinary writ relief, we are asked to consider whether a plaintiff has complied with the affidavit require*182ment in a medical malpractice action when a medical expert’s opinion letter attached to the plaintiff’s complaint does not include a jurat,1 and there is no declaration from the medical expert in either the opinion letter or a notary acknowledgment declaring that the statements contained in the opinion letter are made under penalty of perjury.

We conclude that the absence of a properly executed jurat does not render a medical…