This past October, we reported on the United States Supreme Court’s decision to grant certiorari to resolve a long-standing dispute among federal circuit courts as to whether state affidavit of merit ...
Where a medical malpractice defendant has dual board certifications, must the plaintiff’s affidavit of merit be from a doctor who is also board certified in the same two disciplines? No, said the ...
The Court’s decision in Berk v. Choy resolves a circuit split and adopts the approach the Fourth Circuit has had in place since 2021. About half of U.S. states have enacted affidavit-of-merit (or ...