MacDonald v. Barbarotto

How courts have described this case

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• apply-ing the medical malpractice statute of limita- _ tions to claims of fraud and negligence as plaintiff couched cause of action as “failure to exercise a sufficient degree of professional skill”
• noting that “[i]n determining the appropriate statute of limitation governing a case, we read the party’s claim as a whole and look beyond the procedural labels to determine the exact nature of the claim,” and looking to the complaint to determine that the claim was for ordinary negligence
• “Sound” means “1. To be actionable (in) <her claims for physical injury sound in tort, not in contract> [and] 2. To be recoverable (in) <his tort action sounds in damages, not in equitable relief>.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).