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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.
Advocates in blue states like Colorado and Oregon began with ballot measures. Advocates in red states like Utah and Missouri started in a different way.