Legal Opinion
Breslin v. Powell
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 16, 2011No. 134, September Term, 2010PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHarrell, J.
We wander here once more into the minefield of interpreting the Healthcare Malpractice Claims Act (“HCMCA”) and its requirement that a plaintiff in a medical malpractice action file a proper Certificate of Merit (“Certificate”). 1 In several cases considering whether certain Certificates failed to meet the requirements of Maryland Code (1974, 2006 Repl.Vol., 2010 Supp.), Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article (“CJ”), § 3-2A-04, we held that “the language of the [HCMCA] is clear and its meaning unambiguous.” Walzer v. Osborne, 395 Md. 563, 581, 911 A.2d 427, 437 (2006). We shall stick to our…
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