Haferman v. St. Clare Healthcare Foundation, Inc.

¶ 1. The petitioners, Toby Haferman, Jr., and his parents ("the Hafermans"), seek review of a published court of appeals decision reversing a circuit court order that allowed Toby's medical malpractice action to proceed as timely filed.1 The court of appeals concluded that, even though Toby was a developmentally disabled child, the general three-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice actions applied to bar the action as untimely. It determined that other statutes of limitations applicable to children did not, by their plain language, apply to Toby's medical malpractice action.

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