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NH Rev Stat § 519-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:1 - Findings, Purpose, and Intent.

    519-B:1 Findings, Purpose, and Intent. –||I. Availability and affordability of insurance against liability for medical injury is essential for the protection of patients as well as assuring availability of and access to essential medical and hospital care. This chapter affirms the intent of the general court to contain the costs of the medical injury reparations system and to promote availability and affordability of insurance against liability for medical injury. Claims for medical injury should be resolved as early and inexpensively as possible to contain system costs. Claims that are resolved before court determination cost less to resolve than claims that must be resolved by a court. Meritorious claims should be identified as quickly as possible, as should non-meritorious claims. Defendants should consider paying or compromising meritorious claims and plaintiffs should consider withdrawing or compromising non-meritorious claims, as soon as the merits of the claims are known to the parties. Presentation of claims to a medical review panel is intended to help identify both meritorious and non-meritorious claims without the delay and expense of a court trial. It is essential to the effectiveness of the panel process that panel proceedings be confidential unless and until a matter heard by a panel proceeds to trial. It is equally essential to the effectiveness of the panel process that a panel's unanimous findings be presented to the jury in any matter that is not resolved prior to trial. The panel process will encourage the prompt resolution of claims, because both sides will be given an objective view of the merits. If the panel finds that a claim has merit, the defendant will be more likely to pay the claim or negotiate a compromise that is favorable to the claimant. If the panel finds that the claim lacks merit, the claimant is more likely to withdraw the claim or accept a nominal settlement.||II. The purposes of pretrial screening panels are:||(a) To identify claims of professional negligence which merit compensation and to encourage early resolution of those claims prior to commencement of a lawsuit; and||(b) To identify claims of professional negligence and to encourage early withdrawal or dismissal of non-meritorious claims.|||Source. 2005, 197:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:2 - Definitions.

    519-B:2 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "Action for medical injury" means an action for medical injury as defined in RSA 507-E:1, I.||II. "Medical care provider" means a medical care provider as defined in RSA 507-E:1, II.||III. "Medical injury" means a medical injury as defined in RSA 507-E:1, III.|||Source. 2005, 197:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:5 - Hearing.

    519-B:5 Hearing. –||I. (a) The claimant or a representative of the claimant shall present the case before the panel. The person accused of professional negligence or that person's representative shall make a responding presentation. The panel shall afford the parties wide latitude in the conduct of the hearing including, but not limited to, the right of examination and cross-examination by attorneys. Depositions are admissible whether or not the person deposed is available at the hearing. The chairperson shall make all procedural rulings, which shall be final. The New Hampshire rules of evidence shall not apply. Evidence shall be admitted if it is the kind of evidence upon which reasonable persons are accustomed to rely in the conduct of serious affairs. The panel shall make findings upon such evidence as is presented at the hearing, the records, and any expert opinions provided by or sought by the panel or the parties.||(b) After presentation by the parties, the panel may request additional facts, records, or other information from either party to be submitted in writing or at a continued hearing, which continued hearing shall be held as soon as possible. The continued hearing shall be attended by the same members of the panel who have sat on all prior hearings in the same claim, unless otherwise agreed by all parties. Replacement panel members shall be appointed pursuant to this chapter.||II. The panel shall maintain a tape-recorded record. Except as provided in RSA 519-B:8, the record may not be made public and the hearings may not be public without the consent of all parties.||III. The chairperson of the panel shall attempt to mediate any differences of the parties before proceeding to findings.|||Source. 2005, 197:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:6 - Findings by Panel.

    519-B:6 Findings by Panel. –||I. At the conclusion of the presentations, the panel shall make its findings regarding negligence and causation in writing within 30 days by answering the following questions:||(a) Whether the acts or omissions complained of constitute a deviation from the applicable standard of care by the medical care provider charged with that care;||(b) Whether the acts or omissions complained of proximately caused the injury complained of; and||(c) If fault on the part of the medical care provider is found, whether any fault on the part of the patient was equal to or greater than the fault on the part of the provider.||II. The standard of proof used by the panel shall be as follows:||(a) The plaintiff shall prove negligence and proximate causation by a preponderance of the evidence; and||(b) The defendant shall prove comparative negligence by a preponderance of the evidence.|||Source. 2005, 197:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:7 - Notification of Findings.

    519-B:7 Notification of Findings. –||The panel's findings, signed by the panel members, indicating their vote, shall be sent by registered or certified mail to the parties within 7 days of the date of the findings. The findings and record of the hearing shall be preserved until 30 days after final judgment or final resolution of the case, after which time it shall be destroyed. All medical and provider records shall be returned to the party providing them to the panel.|||Source. 2005, 197:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:8 - Confidentiality and Admissibility.

    519-B:8 Confidentiality and Admissibility. –||I. Except as provided in this section, all proceedings before the panel, including its final determinations, shall be treated as private and confidential by the panel and the parties to the claim.||(a) The findings and other writings of the panel and any evidence and statements made by a party or a party's representative during a panel hearing are not admissible in court and shall not be submitted or used for any purpose in a subsequent trial and shall not be publicly disclosed, except as follows:||(1) Any testimony or writings made under oath may be used in subsequent proceedings for purposes of impeachment.||(2) The party who made a statement or presented evidence may agree to the submission, use, or disclosure of that statement or evidence.||(b) If the panel findings as to both the questions under RSA 519-B:6, I(a) and (b) are unanimous and unfavorable to the defendant, the findings are admissible in any subsequent trial of the medical injury case.||(c) If the panel findings as to any question under RSA 519-B:6, I are unanimous and unfavorable to the plaintiff, the findings are admissible in any subsequent trial of the medical injury case.||II. The confidentiality provisions of this section shall not apply if the findings were influenced by fraud.||III. The deliberations and discussion of the panel and the testimony of any expert, whether called by a party or the panel, shall be privileged and confidential, and no such person may be asked or compelled to testify at a later court proceeding concerning the deliberations, discussions, findings, or expert testimony or opinions expressed during the panel hearing, unless by the party who called and presented the nonparty expert, except such deliberation, discussion, and testimony as may be required to prove an allegation of fraud.|||Source. 2005, 197:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:9 - Mandatory Instructions.

    519-B:9 Mandatory Instructions. –||I. When panel findings are offered and admitted into evidence in a subsequent court action in accordance with RSA 519-B:8, I(b) or (c), the trial court shall provide the following information to the jury to provide a basis for the jury to understand the nature of the panel findings and to put the panel findings in context in evaluating all of the evidence presented at the trial:||(a) The panel process is a preliminary procedural step through which malpractice claims proceed.||(b) The panel in this case consisted of (insert the name and identity of the members).||(c) The panel conducts a summary hearing and is not bound by the rules of evidence.||(d) The hearing is not a substitute for a full trial and may or may not have included all of the evidence that is presented at the trial.||(e) The jury is not bound by the findings of the panel and it is the jurors' duty to reach their own conclusions based on all of the evidence presented to them.||(f) The panel proceedings are privileged and confidential. Consequently, the parties may not introduce panel documents or present witnesses to testify about the panel proceedings, and they may not comment on the panel findings or proceedings except as provided in subparagraphs (a) through (e).||II. The information specified in paragraph I shall be provided to the jury when the findings are admitted into evidence and when the court instructs the jury prior to submitting the case to the jury.|||Source. 2005, 197:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:10 - Effect of Panel Findings.

    519-B:10 Effect of Panel Findings. –||Unanimous findings entered by the panel under RSA 519-B:6, I shall be implemented as follows:||I. If findings are in the plaintiff's favor, the defendant shall promptly enter into negotiations to pay the claim or admit liability. If liability is admitted, the claim may be submitted to the panel, upon agreement of the parties, for determination of damages. If the claim goes to a trial, the findings of the panel are admissible as provided in RSA 519-B:8, I(b).||II. If the findings are in the defendant's favor, the plaintiff shall release the claim or claims based on the findings, without payment, or be subject to the admissibility of those findings under RSA 519-B:8, I(c).|||Source. 2005, 197:1, eff. Aug. 29, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:11 - Repealed by 2005, 197:3, I, eff. Dec. 31, 2010.

    519-B:11 Repealed by 2005, 197:3, I, eff. Dec. 31, 2010. –|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:12 - Repealed by 2005, 197:3, II, eff. Dec. 31, 2010.

    519-B:12 Repealed by 2005, 197:3, II, eff. Dec. 31, 2010. –|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:13 - Repealed by 2011, 241:2, I, eff. Dec. 31, 2013.

    519-B:13 Repealed by 2011, 241:2, I, eff. Dec. 31, 2013. –|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:14 - Repealed by 2011, 241:2, II, eff. Dec. 31, 2013.

    519-B:14 Repealed by 2011, 241:2, II, eff. Dec. 31, 2013. –|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:15 - Repealed by 2014, 212:3, I, eff. Dec. 1, 2018.

    519-B:15 Repealed by 2014, 212:3, I, eff. Dec. 1, 2018. –|
NH Rev Stat § 519-B:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 519-B - Screening Panels for Medical Injury Claims|Section 519-B:16 - Repealed by 2014, 212:3, II, eff. Dec. 1, 2018.

    519-B:16 Repealed by 2014, 212:3, II, eff. Dec. 1, 2018. –|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:1 - Definitions.

    521-A:1 Definitions. –||As used in this chapter the following terms shall have the following meanings:||I. "Appointing authority" means the presiding justice of any court, the chairman of any board, commission or authority, and the director or commissioner of any department or agency, or any other person presiding at any hearing or other proceeding wherein a qualified interpreter is required pursuant to this chapter.||II. "Deaf person" means any person whose hearing is so impaired as to seriously prohibit the person from processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, so as to require the use of an interpreter. This includes, but is not limited to, persons who are deaf, deaf and blind, or severely hard of hearing.||III. "Principal party in interest" means a person in any proceeding in which he is a named party or a person with respect to whom the decision or action which may be taken in any proceeding directly affects.||IV. "Qualified interpreter" means an interpreter licensed under RSA 326-I.|||Source. 1977, 542:1. 1989, 51:2, 3. 2001, 232:4, eff. July 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:2 - Interpreter Required.

    521-A:2 Interpreter Required. –||At all stages of any proceeding before any court, department, board, commission, agency or licensing authority of the state; any political subdivision of the state; or any department, board, commission, agency or licensing authority of a political subdivision in which a deaf person is a principal party in interest the appointing authority shall appoint, upon request of the deaf principal, a qualified interpreter to interpret or to translate the proceedings to the deaf person and to interpret or translate his testimony.|||Source. 1977, 542:1, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:3 - Interpreter Required in Criminal Matters.

    521-A:3 Interpreter Required in Criminal Matters. –||Whenever a deaf person is arrested for any alleged violation of criminal law where the penalty may include imprisonment or fine in excess of $100 or both, no attempt to interrogate or take a statement from such person shall be permitted until a qualified interpreter is appointed for said person and then only through the use of such interpreter.|||Source. 1977, 542:1, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:4 - Preliminary Determination.

    521-A:4 Preliminary Determination. –||No qualified interpreter shall be appointed in any case until the appointing authority makes a preliminary determination that the qualified interpreter is able to accurately communicate with and translate information to and from the deaf person involved in the case.|||Source. 1977, 542:1, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:5 - Interpreter to be Provided.

    521-A:5 Interpreter to be Provided. –||Whenever any deaf person is a party to or receiving services from any health, welfare, or educational agency under the authority of the state or political subdivision of the state or municipality, the appointing authority shall appoint a qualified interpreter for the deaf to interpret or translate the actions of any personnel providing such service and to assist the deaf person in communicating with each person.|||Source. 1977, 542:1, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:6 - Notice; Proof of Disability.

    521-A:6 Notice;  Proof of Disability. –||Every deaf person whose appearance before a proceeding entitles him to an interpreter shall notify the appointing authority of his disability prior to any appearance and shall request at such time the services of an interpreter. An appointing authority may require a person requesting the appointment of an interpreter to furnish reasonable proof of his disability when the appointing authority has reason to believe that the person is not so disabled.|||Source. 1977, 542:1, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:7 - Repealed by 2001, 232:5, I, eff. July 1, 2001.

    521-A:7 Repealed by 2001, 232:5, I, eff. July 1, 2001. –|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:8 - Repealed by 2001, 232:5, II, eff. July 1, 2001.

    521-A:8 Repealed by 2001, 232:5, II, eff. July 1, 2001. –|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:9 - Interpreter Permitted.

    521-A:9 Interpreter Permitted. –||Whenever a deaf person is interested in any administrative or judicial proceeding in which an interpreter would be required for a principal party in interest, he shall be entitled to utilize an interpreter to translate the proceeding for him and to assist him in presenting his testimony or comment.|||Source. 1977, 542:1, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:10 - Oath of Interpreter.

    521-A:10 Oath of Interpreter. –||Every interpreter appointed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, before entering upon his duties, shall take oath that he will make a true interpretation in an understandable manner to the person for whom he is appointed and that he will repeat the statements of such person in the English language to the best of his skill and judgment.|||Source. 1977, 542:1, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:11 - Privileged Communications.

    521-A:11 Privileged Communications. –||Whenever a deaf person communicates through an interpreter to any person under such circumstances that the communication would be privileged and said person could not be compelled to testify as to the communications, said privilege shall apply to the interpreter as well.|||Source. 1977, 542:1, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 521-A:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 521-A - Interpreters for the Deaf|Section 521-A:12 - Compensation.

    521-A:12 Compensation. –||A qualified interpreter appointed under this chapter shall be reimbursed by the appointing authority at a fixed rate reflecting the most recent fee schedule approved by the department of education, bureau of vocational rehabilitation. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any state department, board, commission, agency, or appointing authority, or any political subdivision of the state from employing a qualified interpreter on a full-time basis or under contract at a mutually agreed upon compensation rate.|||Source. 2008, 6:1, eff. July 4, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 522:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 522 - Blood Test to Determine Paternity|Section 522:2 - Selection of Experts.

    522:2 Selection of Experts. –||The tests shall be made by experts qualified as examiners of blood, tissue types and/or genetic markers who shall be appointed by the court. The experts may be called by the court as witnesses to testify to their findings and, if called, shall be subject to cross-examination by the parties. Any party or person at whose suggestion the tests have been ordered may demand that other experts, qualified as examiners of blood, tissue types and/or genetic markers, perform independent tests under order of court, the results of which may be offered in evidence. The number and qualifications of such experts shall be determined by the court.|||Source. 1953, 126:2. RSA 522:2. 1988, 234:6. 1990, 149:2, eff. June 18, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 522:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LIII - Proceedings in Court|Title 522 - Blood Test to Determine Paternity|Section 522:3 - Compensation of Expert Witnesses.

    522:3 Compensation of Expert Witnesses. –||The compensation of each expert witness appointed by the court shall be fixed at a reasonable amount. It shall be paid as the court shall order. The court may order that it be paid by the parties in such proportions and at such times as it shall prescribe, or that the proportion of any party be paid by the county, and that, after payment by the parties or the county or both, all or part or none of it be taxed as costs in the action. The fee of an expert witness called by a party but not appointed by the court shall be paid by the party calling him but shall not be taxed as costs in the action.|||Source. 1953, 126:3, eff. April 29, 1953.|