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2019 Utah Code
Title 78B - Judicial Code
Chapter 3 - Actions and Venue
Part 4 - Utah Health Care Malpractice Act
- Section 401 - Title.
- Section 402 - Legislative findings and declarations -- Purpose of act.
- Section 403 - Definitions.
- Section 404 - Statute of limitations -- Exceptions -- Application.
- Section 405 - Amount of award reduced by amounts of collateral sources available to plaintiff -- No reduction where subrogation right exists -- Collateral sources defined -- Procedure to preserve subrogation rights -- Evidence admissible -- Exceptions.
- Section 406 - Failure to obtain informed consent -- Proof required of patient -- Defenses -- Consent to health care.
- Section 407 - Limitation on actions against health care providers when parent or guardian refuses to consent to health care of child.
- Section 408 - Writing required as basis for liability for breach of guarantee, warranty, contract, or assurance of result.
- Section 409 - Ad damnum clause prohibited in complaint.
- Section 410 - Limitation of award of noneconomic damages in malpractice actions.
- Section 411 - Limitation on attorney's contingency fee in malpractice action.
- Section 412 - Notice of intent to commence action.
- Section 413 - Professional liability insurance coverage for providers -- Insurance commissioner may require joint underwriting authority.
- Section 414 - Periodic payment of future damages in malpractice actions.
- Section 415 - Actions under Utah Governmental Immunity Act.
- Section 416 - Division to provide panel -- Exemption -- Procedures -- Statute of limitations tolled -- Composition of panel -- Expenses -- Division authorized to set license fees.
- Section 417 - Proceedings -- Authority of panel -- Rights of parties to proceedings.
- Section 418 - Decision and recommendations of panel -- No judicial or other review.
- Section 419 - Evidence of proceedings not admissible in subsequent action -- Panelist may not be compelled to testify -- Immunity of panelist from civil liability -- Information regarding professional conduct.
- Section 420 - Proceedings considered a binding arbitration hearing upon written agreement of parties -- Compensation to members of panel.
- Section 421 - Arbitration agreements.
- Section 422 - Evidence of disclosures -- Civil proceedings -- Unanticipated outcomes -- Medical care.
- Section 423 - Affidavit of merit.
- Section 424 - Limitation of liability for ostensible agent.
- Section 425 - Prohibition on cause of action for negligent credentialing.
- Section 426 - Nonpatient plaintiffs.
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