                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COMPOSITION, SELECTION, ETC., OF PANEL (§ 8.01-581.3)

The medical review panel shall consist of (i) two impartial attorneys and two
impartial health care providers, licensed and actively practicing their
professions in the Commonwealth and (ii) the judge of a circuit court in which
the action was filed, who shall preside over the panel. The judge shall have no
vote and need not attend or participate in the deliberations. The medical review
panel shall be selected by the Supreme Court from a list of health care
providers submitted by the Board of Medicine and a list of attorneys submitted
by the Virginia State Bar. In the selection of the health care provider members,
the Court shall give due regard to the nature of the claim and the nature of the
practice of the health care provider.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-913; 1976, c. 611; 1977, cc. 202, 617; 1983, c. 208;
1984, c. 777; 1986, c. 227; 1993, c. 928; 1994, c. 384.