BRESLIN v. POWELL

No. 134, September Term, 2010.

26 A.3d 878 (2011)

421 Md. 266

Jeffery BRESLIN, et al. v. Ronald L. POWELL, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 16, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin L. Keating, III ( E. Philip Franke and Siobhan R. Keenan of Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn & Jones, P.A., Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioners.

David M. Kopstein (Kopstein & Associates, LLC of Seabrook, MD; Jay D. Miller of Miller, Murtha & Psoras, LLC, Lutherville, MD), on brief, for respondents.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS, BARBERA, JJ.


HARRELL, 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"), §...

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