Legal Opinion
Kapp v. Ballantine
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 20, 1980PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court dismissing her action for medical malpractice against a hospital and four physicians. The dismissal followed her failure to provide a bond in the amount of $2,000 as to each defendant, as ordered by a tribunal acting under G. L. c. 231, § 60B, inserted by St. 1975, c. 362, § 5. 2 Some of the defendants assert that the plaintiff has no right of appeal in these circumstances, and all of the defendants argue that the tribunal was correct in its conclusions that the plaintiff must file bonds because her offer of proof before the…
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