The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument over the statute of limitations applicable to survival actions in medical malpractice lawsuits, a case that attorneys said will have a significant effect on actions that tend to result in high damages.
The justices granted allocatur June 7 in Dubose v. Quinlan to review whether they should intervene in the Superior Court’s expansion of the statute of limitations, which the appellants claim was improperly expanded beyond the typical two-year window, contrary to established case law and the intentions of the Medical Care Affordability and Reduction of Error Act.
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