Godwin v. City of Bellflower

Opinion

MANELLA, J. *

Issue Presented

Plaintiff, Andrew Godwin, appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of defendants Virgilio Panganiban, M.D., and Robert Hart, M.D. The superior court found plaintiff’s complaint for medical malpractice was untimely as against Drs. Panganiban and Hart, because it was filed after the applicable one-year statute of limitations. The court was called upon to interpret Code of Civil Procedure section 364, which requires a plaintiff to give 90 days’ notice before bringing a medical malpractice suit against a health care provider, but extends the applicable…