Opinion ID: 2279398
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Preservation for Appellate Review

Text: As a threshold issue, Dr. Imoke contends that Carroll failed to preserve her arguments for appellate review and that this Court should not address the merits of her arguments. He explains that Carroll conceded that she had not complied with the statutory requirements and told the trial court that her expert was in the process of providing a certified statement. Dr. Imoke contends that Carroll did not submit a properly amended certified statement before the Circuit Court dismissed the case, and is now arguing, for the first time on appeal, that the amended letter complied with the statutory requirements. As such, according to Dr. Imoke, she failed to preserve these arguments for appellate review. We note that Carroll argued, before the Circuit Court, that her initial Certificate complied with the statutory requirements and told the trial court that her expert was in the process of providing an amended Certificate. Despite the fact that Carroll's arguments at the trial level pertained to the initial Certificate, we conclude that the substance of her arguments was sufficient to preserve for appellate review the issue of whether her Certificate complied with the requirements set forth in the Health Care Malpractice Claims Statute.