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SHERBURNE v. MED. MALPRACTICE PRELITIGATION

672 A.2d 596 (1996)

Cecilia SHERBURNE v. MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PRELITIGATION SCREENING PANEL et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided March 8, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen P. Sunenblick (orally), Howard T. Reben, Sunenblick, Reben, Benjamin & March, Portland, for Plaintiff.

Peter J. Brann (orally), Assistant Attorney General, Augusta, Jeffrey Rosenblatt (orally), Berman & Simmons, Lewiston, Daniel Rapaport, Robert O. Newton (orally), Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, Portland, for Defendants.

Before WATHEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD, DANA, and LIPEZ, JJ.

ROBERTS, Justice.

Cecilia Sherburne appeals from the judgment of the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Alexander, J.) dismissing her plenary action challenging the action of a Medical Malpractice Prelitigation Screening Panel. Because we conclude that a screening panel convened pursuant to section 2852 of the Maine Health Security Act, 24 M.R.S.A. §§ 2501-2985 (1990 & Pamph.1995), is neither an administrative agency nor an inferior tribunal, we...

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