The doctrine of fraudulent concealment does not apply to nullify the impact of the MCARE Act’s statute of repose, the state Superior Court has ruled.
In so holding, a unanimous three-judge panel also reasoned that a Pennsylvania man seeking to sue over allegedly negligent laser eye surgery did not have a viable cause of action until after the the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act became effective in 2002. Moreover, the court observed, the plaintiff, Francis X. Osborne, did not discover the surgery’s alleged negative effects until after that date.
