Carr v. Broward County

How courts have described this case

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

• \[A] statute of repose commences to run from the date of ... the performance of a surgical operation.\
• \At the end of the [repose] period the cause of action ceases to exist.\
• “At the end of the [repose] period the cause of action ceases to exist.”
• also discussing how a statute of repose will “prevent the accrual of a cause of action where the final element necessary for its creation occurs beyond the time period established by the statute”
• seven-year statute of repose barred medical malpractice action brought ten years after child’s birth where any injury to child from medical malpractice was completed fact on or before time of birth
• “The period of time established by a statute of repose commences to run from the date of an event specified in the statute.... At the end of the time period the cause of action ceases to exist.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).