INBLF St. Louis member John M. Reeves was interviewed by St. Louis Record on the pending Missouri Supreme Court case Giudicy V. Mercy Hospitals and medical malpractice affidavit requirements.
“Defense attorneys would say affidavits are an important matter to weed out frivolous plaintiff’s lawsuits and that’s why the statute’s requirement was strengthened in 2005,” Reeves said. “You need to have an affidavit from a specialist saying that the case isn’t frivolous and, understandably, the plaintiff’s bar is upset about that because it means they have to choose their cases more carefully.”
Read the full interview on their website.