· 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
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- 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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