Geisz v. Greater Baltimore Medical Center

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• referring to fraud case where “a variety of nonliability hypotheses could have explained the facts known to the [] plaintiffs so that limitations was a fact question.”
• “[E]stoppel based on fraud or fraudulent concealment of a cause of action operates to toll the substantive limitations period in the wrongful death statute.”
• CJ § 5-203 may toll limitations as to both statutory and common law claims
• “[T]he appellate court will not ordinarily undertake to sustain the judgment by ruling on another ground, not ruled upon by the trial court, if the alternative ground is one as to which the trial court had a discretion to deny summary judgment.”
• “[Plaintiff] contends that she did not ‘discover’ the causes of action until she read a newspaper article describing one or more malpractice actions filed against [the defendant] and that discovery is the sole manner in which this survival claim can accrue.”
• “[T]he appellate court will not ordinarily undertake to sustain the judgments by ruling on another ground, not ruled on by the trial court, if the alternative ground is one as to which the trial court had a discretion to deny summary judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).