Title 7 — Civil Procedure
21 chapters · 163 sections in this title.
7 CMC § 2808 Statutory Liability Limitations: Negligence Actions Against Physicians, Surgeons, Nurses, and EMT's
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2808. Statutory Liability Limitations: Negligence Actions Against Physicians, Surgeons, Nurses, and EMT's. (a) In any action for damages involving a claim of negligence against a physician, surgeon, nurse, EMT…
7 CMC § 2809 Statutory Liability Limitation: Emergency Services; PSS Employee Rendering Emergency Care at an Emergency Scene
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE § 2809 DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2809. Statutory Liability Limitation: Emergency Services; PSS Employee Rendering Emergency Care at an Emergency Scene. Any Public School System employee not licensed under the CNMI Nurse Practice Act [3…
7 CMC § 2901 Effect of Contributory Fault
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2901. Effect of Contributory Fault. (a) In an action based on fault seeking to recover damages for injury or death to person or harm to property, any contributory fault chargeable to the claimant diminishes pr…
7 CMC § 2902 Apportionment of Damages
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2902. Apportionment of Damages. (a) In all actions involving fault of more than one party to the action, including third-party defendants and persons who have been released under Section 2906 of this Act, the …
7 CMC § 2903 Set-Off
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2903. Set-Off. A claim and counterclaim shall not be set off against each other, except by agreement of both parties. On motion, however, the court, if it finds that the obligation of either party is likely to…
7 CMC § 2904 Right of Contribution
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2904. Right of Contribution. (a) A right of contribution exists between or among two or more persons who are jointly and severally liable upon the same indivisible claim for the same injury, death, or harm, wh…
7 CMC § 2905 Enforcement of Contribution
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2905. Enforcement of Contribution. (a) If the proportionate fault of the parties to a claim for contribution has been established previously by the court, as provided by Section 2902 of this Act, a party payin…
7 CMC § 2906 Effect of Release
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2906. Effect of Release. A release, covenant not to sue, or similar agreement entered into by a claimant and a person liable discharges that person from all liability for contribution, but it does not discharg…
7 CMC § 2907 Uniformity of Application and Construction
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2907. Uniformity of Application and Construction. This Act shall be applied and construed so as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this Act among jurisdict…
7 CMC § 2921 Definitions
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2921. Definitions. In this chapter: (a) The term “economic damages” means monetary losses including medical and health care expenses, loss of earnings, burial expenses, property damage, loss of use of property…
7 CMC § 2922 Limitation of Compensation in Actions for Personal Injury
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2922. Limitation of Compensation in Actions for Personal Injury. In an action seeking to recover damages for injury to person, the injured person shall be entitled to assert a claim for non-economic damages to…
7 CMC § 2923 Limitation of Compensation in Actions for Wrongful Death
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2923. Limitation of Compensation in Actions for Wrongful Death. In an action seeking to recover damages for wrongful death of a decedent, all persons entitled to recover damages for wrongful death shall be ent…
7 CMC § 2924 Uniformity of Application and Construction
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TITLE 7: CIVIL PROCEDURE DIVISION 2: ACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS § 2924. Uniformity of Application and Construction. This Act shall be applied and construed so as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this Act among jurisdict…