21-3A-1.2. Applicability of chapter.The provisions of this chapter apply only to any action against a physician, surgeon, dentist, hospital, sanitarium, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, chiropractor, or other practitioner of the healing arts for malpractice, error, mistake or failure to cure, whether based upon contract or tort, and to the professional corporation or corporations of any such practitioner of the healing arts. Source: SL 1986, ch 163, §16, as added by SL 1988, ch 181, §6.
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