Edward W. McCready Memorial Hospital v. Hauser

CHASANOW, Judge.

I

In 1976, the General Assembly enacted the Health Care Malpractice Claims Statute (the Statute) in response to explosive growth in medical malpractice claims and the resulting effect on health care providers’ ability to obtain malpractice insurance. Chapter 235 of the 1976 Acts of Maryland; see generally K. Quinn, The Health Care Malpractice Claims Statute: Maryland’s Response to the Medical Malpractice Crisis, 10 U.BaltL.Rev. 74 (1980) (describing evolution of Statute and assessing its early effectiveness). “[T]he general thrust of the Act [is] that medical malpractice claims…