Summary


The procedural rule revisions improve definitions, encourage electronic filing, streamline the consolidation of cases, promote the timely resolution of attorney’s fees and costs, discourage duplicate and unnecessary filings, encourage timely orders, streamline mediation, require meaningful pretrial stipulations, promote timely discovery, provide for telephonic administration of oaths, streamline motion practice, and provide for appointment of expert medical advisors, with a resulting more efficient and self-executing adjudicatory process.