Swam v. Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Inc.

The issue in this case is whether the general statute of limitations barred a claim initially filed in the wrong forum, the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office *531(“Health Care Office”), and then subsequently filed in the appropriate forum, the Circuit Court for Harford County.1

The plaintiffs-appellants, Mary C. Swam and Scott Swam, filed their claim with the Health Care Office based upon an alleged personal injury resulting from an abandoned hypodermic syringe on the premises of the defendant-appellee, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Inc. If the injury was a “medical injury”…