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      Sec. 38a-33. (Formerly Sec. 38-19c). Selection of panel to screen malpractice claim. Whenever all parties to a claim for malpractice agree, they may request the Insurance Commissioner or his designee to select a panel composed of two physicians and one attorney from the Malpractice Screening Panel established under section 38a-32. None of the members of the panel, insofar as possible, shall be from the same community of practice of either the physician involved or the attorneys for the parties. At least one of the physicians shall be from the same specialty as the physician against whom such claim is filed and the attorney shall have experience in the trial of personal injury cases. The attorney so designated shall act as chairman.

      (P.A. 77-249, S. 2; 77-614, S. 163, 587, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 80-482, S. 270, 348.)

      History: P.A. 77-614 and 78-303 placed insurance commissioner within the department of business regulation and made the insurance department a division within that department, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 restored insurance commissioner and division to prior independent status and abolished the department of business regulation; Sec. 38-19c transferred to Sec. 38a-33 in 1991.