The first week of February 2014 saw two interesting statute of limitations decisions handed down by the Appellate Division, First Department, both involving medical malpractice actions, one directly and one indirectly. In Perez v. Fitzgerald, 2014 NY Slip Op. 00744 (1st Dept. Feb. 6, 2014), the court held that the statute of limitations period for chiropractic malpractice was three years, not the two and one-half years applicable to medical malpractice.
In Cabrera v. Collazo, 2014 NY Slip Op. 00611 (App. Div. 1st Dept. Feb. 4, 2014), the court put the bar on notice that, whatever the medical malpractice statute of limitations may be, an attorney may be liable for legal malpractice if attorney neglect causes the client to miss the statute of limitations—even if the attorney’s death occurs before the statute runs.
Chiropractic Malpractice
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