· 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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