Utah's secretive panels make it harder to sue medical provid

Utah's prelitigation panels are meant to judge the merit of a complaint against a health care worker ahead of a lawsuit. No one has been able to show whether this mandatory step have had a meaningful impact on weeding out frivolous cases or reducing the number of medical malpractice cases filed.

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