Where a medical malpractice defendant has dual board certifications, must the plaintiff’s affidavit of merit be from a doctor who is also board certified in the same two disciplines? No, said the ...

This past October, we reported on the United States Supreme Court’s decision to grant certiorari to resolve a long-standing dispute among federal circuit courts as to whether state affidavit of merit ...

The Court’s decision in Berk v. Choy resolves a circuit split and adopts the approach the Fourth Circuit has had in place since 2021. About half of U.S. states have enacted affidavit-of-merit (or ...