CHAPTER 671

MEDICAL TORTS

 

         Part I.  General Provisions

Section

     671-1 Definitions

     671-2 Repealed

     671-3 Informed consent

     671-4 Notice of damages

     671-5 Reporting and reviewing medical tort claims

     671-6 Administration of chapter

 

         Part II.  Medical Claim Conciliation

    671-11 Medical claim conciliation panels; composition,

           selection, compensation

  671-11.5 Waiver of filing fee

    671-12 Review by panel required; notice; presentation of

           claims; request for a more definite statement of the

           claim

  671-12.5 Certificate of consultation

    671-13 Medical claim conciliation panel hearing;

           fact-finding; evidence; voluntary settlement

    671-14 Same; persons attending hearings of panel

    671-15 Same, decisions

  671-15.5 Expungement of records; malpractice insurance rates

    671-16 Subsequent litigation; excluded evidence

  671-16.5 Arbitration; subsequent litigation

  671-16.6 Submission of claim to an alternative dispute

           resolution provider

    671-17 Immunity of panel members from liability

    671-18 Statute of limitations tolled

    671-19 Duty to cooperate; assessment of costs and fees

    671-20 Annual report

 

         Part III.  Patients' Compensation Fund

    671-31 to 37 Repealed

 

Case Notes

 

  As chapter rationally furthers legitimate state interest of assuring the provision of affordable health care to Hawaii's citizens by requiring participation in medical malpractice dispute resolution such that the high cost of litigation may be avoided, plaintiff not denied equal protection of the laws.  89 H. 188, 970 P.2d 496.