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· 12/21/1988

Ashworth v. Memorial Hospital of Long Beach

Citations

  • 206 Cal. App. 3d 1046
  • 254 Cal. Rptr. 104
  • 1988 Cal. App. LEXIS 1190

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Only discovery of those particular foreign bodies and their causal relation to the patient’s injuries can start the clock”
  • one year period did not begin when plaintiff held an “apparently erroneous suspicion that this wound was the result of other acts of malpractice she knew about,” but “remained unaware of the specific ‘negligent cause’ of the oozing wound”

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Judges: Johnson

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