A lawsuit over a 13-year-old’s allegedly botched appendectomy was filed too late because North Carolina’s general three-year time limit for medical malpractice claims applied, the state high court ruled.
A state law extending the time for filing suit for injuries to minors didn’t apply in this case, where the claim for professional negligence accrued after the plaintiff’s 13th birthday, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled in an opinion by Judge Trey Allen.
North Carolina law generally extends the statute of limitations for cases involving plaintiffs who were under age 18 when their causes of action accrued, allowing them to file ...
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