Donna Waldrup v. Stephanie Eads

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. A medical-malpractice claim must be “filed within two (2) years from the date the alleged act, omission or neglect shall or with reasonable diligence might have been first known or discovered];.]” 1 Donna Waldrup filed her wrongful-death claim based on Stephanie Eads’s medical negligence more than two years after Waldr- up’s mother died. Waldrup claimed the four-month delay in her mother’s official autopsy report tolled the two-year statute of limitations, making her claim timely. But the undisputed evidence shows Waldr-up and her siblings suspected Eads had…