Jacoby v. Kaiser Foundation Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• discovery of the injury occurs when plaintiff discovers damage, violation of duty, and the causal connection between the violation of the duty and the damage
• plaintiff unaware that second ailment causally related to treatment for first condition until she sought treatment for sec ond ailment
• “[I]n the context of this kind of case injury is legal injury is legal wrong is malpractice is cause of action is negligence.”
• plaintiff unaware that second ailment causally related to treatment for first condition until she sought treatment for second ailment
• credibility of affiant constituted an issue for the trier of fact

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).