St. George v. Pariser

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• recognizing that a different approach is necessary to determine the existence of an “injury” in misdiagnosis cases as opposed to malpractice actions based on the affirmative conduct of the defendant
• injury is deemed to occur, and the statute of limitations period begins to run, whenever any injury, however slight, is sustained
• injury is deemed to occur, and. the statute of limitations period begins to run, whenever any injury, however slight, is sustained
• the Court opined that the cause of action accrues on “the date the injury is sustained in the case of injury to the person. . . .”
• “To carry his burden on the limitations plea, therefore, [the defendant] was required to show, with reasonable medical certainty, that this injury . . . occurred prior to October 21, 1991.”
• “[A]n injury is deemed to occur ... whenever any injury, however slight, is caused by the negligent act, even though additional or more severe injury or damage may be subsequently sustained as a result of the negligent act.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).