Legal Opinion
Morton v. National Medical Enterprises, Inc.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 11, 1999No. 97-CV-817, 97-CV-818, 97-CV-819, 97-CV-855, 97-CV-872PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Senior Judge:
In this consolidated appeal, appellants challenge the trial court’s award of summary judgment to appellees on statute of limitations grounds. The litigation arose out of the allegedly negligent treatment appellants received at psychiatric hospitals affiliated with or subsidiary to National Medical Enterprises, Inc. (NME), between 1986 and 1991. Appellants’ suits, which were filed in Superior Court on May 1,1996, therefore are barred by the three-year statute of limitations for medical malpractice, D.C.Code § 12-301 (1995 Repl.), unless appellants have a separate cause of…
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