{"id":2639,"date":"2020-01-16T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2020-01-16T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:40:08","slug":"infant-could-not-file-late-notice-of-malpractice-claim-against-new-york-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/infant-could-not-file-late-notice-of-malpractice-claim-against-new-york-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant Could Not File Late Notice of Malpractice Claim Against New York Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, a claim for medical malpractice must be filed within two and one-half years (30 months) of an alleged act of medical negligence in the state of New York. While some circumstances can operate to lengthen the time for filing a claim, other circumstances can shorten the period substantially. For instance, if the defendant in a proposed Syracuse birth injury lawsuit is a governmental entity, the plaintiff may have as little as 90 days in which to file a notice of claim (a condition precedent to the filing of a lawsuit against certain government entities, including those who own or operate hospitals).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-first-department\/2020\/10714-805168-16.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent case<\/a>, the petitioner was an infant, proceeding through his mother and natural guardian, who sought to assert a medical malpractice claim against the respondent city hospital corporation (a public entity). Although the infant was discharged from the hospital shortly after his birth in April 2013, he did not file a motion for leave to serve a late notice of claim until May 2016 &#8211; more than three years after the alleged act of medical negligence. The Supreme Court of New York County denied the petitioner&#8217;s motion for leave to serve a late notice of claim, and he appealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Court&#8217;s Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The New York Appellate Division, First Department, affirmed the lower court&#8217;s order denying the relief sought by the petitioner. According to the court, both the infant and his mother received pre- and post-natal care at the respondent&#8217;s hospital in 2013. In the reviewing court&#8217;s opinion, any medical malpractice claim that the petitioner might have had against the respondent accrued upon the petitioner&#8217;s discharge from the hospital; thus the applicable claims period began to run more than three years prior to the filing of the petitioner&#8217;s motion for leave to serve a late notice of claim.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/infant-could-not-file-late-notice-of-malpractice-claim-against-new-york-hospital\/#more-2639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, a claim for medical malpractice must be filed within two and one-half years (30 months) of an alleged act of medical negligence in the state of New York. While some circumstances can operate to lengthen the time for filing a claim, other circumstances can shorten the period substantially. For instance, if the defendant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injuries","category-hospital-negligence","category-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Infant Could Not File Late Notice of Malpractice Claim Against New York Hospital &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 16, 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Generally speaking, a claim for medical malpractice must be filed within two and one-half years (30 months) of an alleged act of medical negligence in the &#8212; January 16, 2020\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/infant-could-not-file-late-notice-of-malpractice-claim-against-new-york-hospital\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Infant Could Not File Late Notice of Malpractice Claim Against New York Hospital &#8212; 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