21-25B-24. Records and files of panel closed to public until judgment--Court order for disclosure--Record filed with clerk of courts.Records and files of proceedings before the health care services arbitration panel shall not, until the entry of judgment therein, be open to public inspection or examination, and the parties thereto or the subject thereof shall not be identified or disclosed except to the parties to such proceedings, their counsel of record, or members of the arbitration panel, or except upon order of the circuit court of the circuit in which such proceedings are venued, upon a showing of good cause therefor. When all proceedings are completed, the arbitration officer shall file the record with the clerk of courts. Source: SL 1976, ch 155, §§19, 24.
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