Legal Opinion
Miller v. Philadelphia Geriatric Center
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 12, 2006No. 04-3132PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
NYGAARD, Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises issues of some complexity concerning the timeliness of an action brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act and various other state statutes. Vicki Miller, the sister of a mentally retarded man and administratrix of his estate, filed a lawsuit sounding in tort against her brother’s physicians and the medical/geriatric facility that provided her brother’s care. Specifically, she filed both a survival claim of negligence and a wrongful death claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act arguing that her brother died because his doctors…
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