Long v. MEMORIAL HOSP. AT GULFPORT

How courts have described this case

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• medical malpractice statute of limitations begins to run with knowledge of injury, cause of injury, and causal relationship between injury and conduct of physician
• “[t]he [MTCA] gives a governmental entity defendant ninety days from the filing of a notice of claim to consider the claim before a lawsuit can be maintained”
• “One of the benefits of Rule 9(h) is to allow a plaintiff, who is aware of his cause of action against a defendant but ignorant of the defendant’s identity, to name a fictitious party as a defendant in order to use the court’s resources to discover her true identity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).