Legal Opinion
Dunston v. Huang
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided March 10, 2010No. Civil Action 1:09cv1369PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.
This diversity medical malpractice case presents a question concerning the application of Virginia’s six-month statute of limitations tolling provision for nonsuited actions. See Va.Code § 8.01 — 229(E)(3). More specifically, at issue is whether now time-barred claims of failure to perform an alternative procedure and lack of informed consent are saved by the six-month tolling provision where those claims were not pled in the original medical malpractice action.
I. 1
On March 19, 2008, plaintiff filed a complaint in the Circuit Court for Loudon…
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