New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 22 - JUDICIARY
Subtitle B - Courts
Chapter IV - Supreme Court
Subchapter D - Fourth Judicial Department
Article 1 - Appellate Division
Subarticle B - Special Rules
Part 1028 - Medical Malpractice Panels
Section 1028.1 - Medical malpractice panel established

(a) There is hereby established in the Seventh and Eighth Judicial Districts of the Fourth Department a medical malpractice panel to facilitate the disposition of medical malpractice actions in the Supreme Court, and a separate malpractice panel in each of said judicial districts for actions against podiatrists in the Supreme Court.

(b) The presiding justice of the Appellate Division, or a designee of the presiding justice, with the assistance of the Medical Society of the State of New York, county medical societies, or the New York Academy of Medicine, shall prepare a list or lists of physicians regularly admitted to practice medicine in the State of New York, divided into lists of physicians according to the particular specialty of each, and a separate list or lists of licensed podiatrists.

(c) The presiding justice or designee shall prepare a list of attorneys with trial experience, not confined, however, to the field of medical malpractice.

(d) The presiding justice or designee may add to a list or delete from a list at any time the name of a physician, podiatrist or attorney in the discretion of the presiding justice or designee.

(e) The names of physicians, podiatrists and attorneys appearing on lists compiled for a judicial district in the Fourth Judicial Department may be utilized, where practicable, in another judicial district in that department where a medical malpractice panel has been established. The names of physicians, podiatrists and attorneys from another judicial department may be utilized in the Fourth Judicial Department upon agreement of the respective presiding justices.