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· 6/21/2001

Palanque v. Lambert-Woolley

Citations

  • 774 A.2d 501
  • 168 N.J. 398
  • 2001 N.J. LEXIS 777

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that Legislature intended \to curtail frivolous litigation without preventing access to the courts for meritorious claims\
  • stating that Legislature intended “to curtail frivolous litigation without preventing access to the courts for meritorious claims”
  • holding complaint will be dismissed without prejudice only when plaintiff demonstrates extraordinary circumstances prevented statutory compliance
  • ruling a physician's misreading specimen identification numbers as test results and falsely telling a woman 12 A-5439-15T1 she was pregnant fell within the common knowledge exception
  • explaining that failure to file timely and compliant affidavit of merit results in dismissal of complaint “unless extraordinary circumstances prevented the filing” and that “attorney inadvertence will not support the extraordinary circumstances standard”
  • applying common knowledge doctrine to misdiagnosis resulting from misreading of numbers on a lab chart

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Judges: Poritz

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