Chaffin v. Nicosia

This cause arises upon petition to transfer and presents two issues for our determination:(1) Whether a statute allowing medical practitioners the special privilege of a two-year time period within which they may be sued is violative of Article 1, § 28 of the Constitution of Indiana;(2) Whether the two-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice is an exception to, or in irreconcilable conflict with, a statute allowing minors to sue within two years after reaching majority.

*700Appellant’s complaint alleged medical malpractice on the part of appellee arising from appellee’s treatment of…