{"id":2456,"date":"2019-08-15T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2019-08-15T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:10:16","slug":"late-filing-of-new-york-medical-malpractice-claim-permitted-under-relation-back-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/late-filing-of-new-york-medical-malpractice-claim-permitted-under-relation-back-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Late-Filing of New York Medical Malpractice Claim Permitted Under Relation-Back Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who have been hurt by a doctor, nurse, or hospital have a limited time in which to file a medical malpractice claim. Usually, claims not filed within this time period are dismissed by the court as untimely.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are a limited number of circumstances in which a late-filed claim may be allowed. One such exception is referred to as the &#8220;relation-back&#8221; doctrine. A recent appellate case explored the applicability of the doctrine to a case in which additional defendants were added to an ongoing lawsuit after the expiration of the usual limitations period. If you or a loved one has been injured and you wonder if it is too late to file a claim, it is important that you speak with a Syracuse medical malpractice attorney as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-second-department\/2019\/2016-06201.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appellate case<\/a> originating in the Supreme Court of Kings County, the plaintiff filed a wrongful death claim against a medical center and others following the death of the decedent in May 2009. Prior to her death, the decedent had been treated for abdominal pain in the defendant medical center on multiple occasions over a period of about one month. The plaintiff&#8217;s suit, which was filed in 2011, named the medical center and several individual healthcare providers as defendants. In 2014, the defendant medical center filed a third-party action against another provider who had become affiliated with a different facility, along with three other third-party defendants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/late-filing-of-new-york-medical-malpractice-claim-permitted-under-relation-back-doctrine\/#more-2456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who have been hurt by a doctor, nurse, or hospital have a limited time in which to file a medical malpractice claim. Usually, claims not filed within this time period are dismissed by the court as untimely. However, there are a limited number of circumstances in which a late-filed claim may be allowed. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence","category-medical-malpractice","category-surgery-errors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Late-Filing of New York Medical Malpractice Claim Permitted Under Relation-Back Doctrine &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; August 15, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Those who have been hurt by a doctor, nurse, or hospital have a limited time in which to file a medical malpractice claim. 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