Olsen v. Richards

How courts have described this case

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• holding that § 25-222 applied to all acts of negligence alleged against physician
• patient’s action for injuries received when doctor injured her neck while adjusting head rest on examination chair constituted malpractice
• in applying 2-year malpractice statute of limitations instead of 4-year statute for ordinary negligence, court pointed to physician-patient relationship which existed between parties and which was stimulus for examination alleged to be negligently performed
• patient could not overcome the more restrictive 2-year statute of limitations which governs professional negligence by alleging that the physician committed ordinary negligence when the cause of action arose out of negligence that occurred during the patient’s treatment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).