HB 1256 - AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
09/01
HOUSE BILL 1256
AN ACT restricting medical injury claims subject to pretrial screening panel review to claims exceeding $250,000.
SPONSORS: Rep. Nixon, Hills 17; Rep. Rowe, Hills 6; Rep. DiFruscia, Rock 4; Rep. Craig, Hills 9
This bill restricts medical injury claims subject to pretrial screening panel review to claims exceeding $250,000 in damages.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2252
09/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT restricting medical injury claims subject to pretrial screening panel review to claims exceeding $250,000.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims; Definition of Action for Medical Injury. Amend RSA 519-B:2, I to read as follows:
I. “Action for medical injury” or “claim” means an action for medical injury, as defined in RSA 507-E:1, I, in which the plaintiff’s claim exceeds $250,000 in damages.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2011.