Estate’s Missed Medical Diagnosis Suit Filed Too Late in Indiana

The estate of an Indiana man whose death allegedly could have been prevented by an earlier diagnosis of a brain injury waited too long to file a suit against a doctor accused of misreading a diagnostic test, a state appeals court said.

Indiana’s two-year time limit for filing a medical malpractice case begins to run at the time of the alleged injury, unless it couldn’t have been discovered earlier with reasonable diligence, the Indiana Court of Appeals said.

But the discovery exception didn’t give Gerald Morris’ estate more time to file a lawsuit arising out of the alleged misreading of ...