Subchapter - CHAPTER 49. [MEDIATION OF ACTION ALLEGING MEDICAL MALPRACTICE]
- Section 600.4901 - "Panel" defined
- Section 600.4903 - Mediation of action alleging medical malpractice; time for referring action to mediation; hearing by mediation panel
- Section 600.4905 - Mediation panel; selection and qualifications of members; judge as member; grounds for disqualification as mediator
- Section 600.4907 - Mediation clerk; designation; setting time and place for mediation hearing; notice; adjournments
- Section 600.4909 - Mediation fee
- Section 600.4911 - Submission of documents and brief or summary to mediation clerk; penalty for failure to submit materials
- Section 600.4913 - Right of party to attend mediation hearing; personal appearance to demonstrate unusual conditions; testimony prohibited; rules of evidence inapplicable; factual information; limitation on oral presentation; requests and inquiries by panel; admissibility of statements, briefs, or summaries
- Section 600.4915 - Evaluation by panel; notice; contents of evaluation; determination that action or defense is frivolous; posting cash or surety bond; payment of costs and attorney fees; separate awards; treating claims as single claim
- Section 600.4917 - Filing written acceptance or rejection of evaluation; failure to file as acceptance; disclosure of acceptance or rejection; notice; rules applicable in mediations involving multiple parties
- Section 600.4919 - Entry of judgment; action to proceed to trial upon rejection; placing copies of evaluation, acceptances, and rejections in sealed envelope; filing envelope with clerk of court; opening envelope; evaluation not exceeding jurisdictional limitation of district court
- Section 600.4921 - Payment of actual costs; adjustment of verdict; scope of actual costs; condition prohibiting award of costs
- Section 600.4923 - Delay of trial date scheduled in advance of date set for mediation hearing; applicability of section