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· 4/29/1983

DeMartino v. Albert Einstein Medical Center

Citations

  • 460 A.2d 295
  • 313 Pa. Super. 492
  • 1983 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3005

How courts have described this case

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

  • statute will not be tolled until plaintiff knows of legal theory to be pursued
  • statute will not be tolled until plaintiff knows of legal theory to be pursued
  • “The fact that appellant may not have known the identity of the dentist who performed the work is not relevant to the start of the limitations statute.”
  • suit commenced twenty-eight months after conversation with a dentist who told plaintiff specifically that the dentist who worked on him before had a hand in causing the problem
  • discussing the history of the “discovery rule” in Pennsylvania

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Judges: Price, Montemuro, Van Voort

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