The state Superior Court has reinstated a suit against a hospital and several doctors stemming from a patient's death during a clinical trial.

The trial court in Scheer v. Burke had precluded several proposed experts from testifying, and determined that communications between the hospital conducting the clinical trial and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections were barred under the Peer Review Protection Act.

However, a three-judge panel of the Superior Court vacated last week most of the lower court's rulings, and remanded the case.