AZARIAN v. WITTE

No. 812, Sept. Term, 2000.

779 A.2d 1043 (2001)

140 Md. App. 69

Elizabeth AZARIAN, et vir., v. Jeffrey F. WITTE.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

September 4, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry J. Rosenthal (Bromberg, Rosenthal, Siegel & Goodman, and Malcolm P. Herman, on the brief), Rockville, for Appellants.

H. Kenneth Armstrong (Armstrong, Donohue, Ceppos & Vaughan, Chartered, on the brief), Rockville, for Appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SONNER, and KRAUSER, JJ.


KRAUSER, J.

The "attesting expert provision"1 of the Maryland Health Care Malpractice Claims Act (the "Act")2 provides that all claimants under the Act must file a "certificate of a qualified expert," more commonly known as "a certificate of merit,"3 in which an expert attests that "a departure from the standard of care" by the defendant...

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