Whitaker v. Zirkle

How courts have described this case

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• “When an injury occurs subsequent to the date of medical treatment, the statute of limitation commences from the date the injury is discovered.”
• subsequent metastasis of previously unmetastasized cancer cells constituted a new injury arising out of the failure to diagnose cancer
• after pathologist failed to properly diagnose patient's malignant mole, patient sustained a subsequent injury when she developed metastatic melanoma
• mole, which was removed, but negligently misdiagnosed as non-malignant, developed into metastatic cancer
• mole, which was removed, but negligently misdiagnosed as non-malignant, developed into metastatic cancer
• mole, which was removed, but negligently misdiagnosed as non-malignant, developed into metastatic cancer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).