Alexander v. Scheid

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

BOEHM, Justice.

The plaintiffs are a married couple who allege medical malpractice in the failure to follow up on a chest x-ray that revealed a nodule in the wife’s lung. When the complaint was filed, the wife had incurred an increased risk of fatal cancer as a result of the delay in diagnosis, but was in remission. This ease addresses whether a claim for medical malpractice may be asserted if the injury has not come to its full potential, and may never do so. We conclude that such a claim may be pursued under the circumstances of this ease.

Factual Background

In June of…