Reversing the trial court, a state appeals court on Tuesday threw out a woman’s cancer-based medical-malpractice and lack-of-informed-consent suit, ruling her action was time-barred despite her and her lawyers’ attempt to use the so-called Lavern’s Law, which expanded the state’s statute of limitations for cancer misdiagnosis cases.

Among other aspects of Lavern’s Law, which was enacted in 2018, it established that the statute of limitations for certain medical malpractice actions, including those focused on negligent failure to diagnose cancer or a malignant tumor, begins when a patient discovers the alleged wrongdoing, not when—as it had been—when the negligent act occurred, according to various law-firm website descriptions and news articles about the statute.