McCREADY MEMORIAL HOSP. v. HAUSER

No. 73, September Term, 1992.

330 Md. 497 (1993)

624 A.2d 1249

EDWARD W. McCREADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ET AL. v. MAXINE HAUSER ET VIR.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied June 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Allan Adelman (Godard, West & Adelman, P.C., on brief), Rockville, Kurt D. Karsten (David R. Thompson, Cowdrey, Thompson & Karsten, P.A., on brief), Annapolis, for appellant.

Fletcher P. Thompson on brief, Cambridge, for appellee.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, ROBERT M. BELL and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge of the Court of Appeals (Retired) Specially Assigned, JJ.


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.Balt...

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