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· 3/28/1985

Kern Ex Rel. Kern v. St. Joseph Hospital, Inc.

Citations

  • 697 P.2d 135
  • 102 N.M. 452

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  • indicating that when there are genuine issues of material fact regarding when a statute of limitations begins, such questions are “ordinarily for determination by the finder of fact”
  • stating that to toll the statute of limitations, the patient has 19 the burden of showing “that the patient did not know, or could not have known 2 1 through the exercise of reasonable diligence, of his cause of action within the statutory 2 period.”

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Judges: Federici, Bivins, Sosa, Walters, Riordan, Stowers, Wood, Neal

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