Patricia A. Chandler and Roger Chandler v. F. Hampton Roy, M.D., Arkansas Cataract Center, P.A., a Professional Association

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Following surgery in March, 1995, Patricia Chandler brought a medical malpractice action against Dr. F. Hampton Roy in federal district court in Arizona. That action was dismissed in December 1997 for lack of personal jurisdiction. Less than a year later, Ms. Chandler brought the same claim in federal district court in Arkansas. The issue that this case presents is whether this latter action, although filed after Arkansas’s two-year statute of limitations had run, was nonetheless timely because of an Arkansas statute commonly called the “savings statute.”…