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09-24-2008, 11:35 PM
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? florida:  just wondering how much time you have to file a malpractice claim. |
09-25-2008, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by JodieHope  What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? florida: just wondering how much time you have to file a malpractice claim. | This is what I found...
2 years with discovery rule (maximum 4 years from the malpractice). SOL applies to minors 8 and older. Infant must bring suit by 8th birthday or within SOL whichever is greater. (When nature of bodily damage that occurs during medical treatment is such that, in and of itself, it communicates possibility of medical negligence, then statute of limitations begins to run; however, if there is nothing about injury that would communicate to reasonable lay person that injury is more likely the result of some failure of medical care than a natural occurrence that can arise in absence of medical negligence, knowledge of injury itself does not necessarily trigger running of statute of limitations.)
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09-25-2008, 07:59 AM
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09-25-2008, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by ecmst12 Googling that yourself would have been SOOOO much harder! | LOL...that was my favor for the day. 
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