{"id":2725,"date":"2020-03-29T17:26:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T21:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2020-03-20T17:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T21:27:17","slug":"new-york-court-holds-that-failure-to-diagnose-breast-cancer-medical-malpractice-claim-was-timely-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-court-holds-that-failure-to-diagnose-breast-cancer-medical-malpractice-claim-was-timely-filed\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Court Holds that Failure-to-Diagnose Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Claim Was Timely Filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like other types of personal injury and wrongful death cases, claims for medical malpractice must be filed within a certain period of time (called the &#8220;statute of limitations&#8221;), or else the claimant forfeits his or her right to pursue fair compensation. While there a few exceptions to this general rule, these exceptions apply only to very limited situations. In all other circumstances, a would-be plaintiff&#8217;s claim will be dismissed as time-barred if not filed within the limitations period. Hence, it is very important to talk to Syracuse medical malpractice attorney sooner, rather than later, if you or a loved one has been the victim of medical negligence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts of the Case<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff in a malpractice <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/new-york\/appellate-division-second-department\/2020\/2018-10191.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit<\/a> filed in the Supreme Court of Orange County was a woman who had a mammogram at the defendant medical facility in April 2015. The defendant radiologist reviewed the plaintiff&#8217;s mammogram and prepared a report recommending that the plaintiff have a biopsy, but, apparently due to some miscommunication or a lack of communication, the plaintiff did not actually undergo a biopsy until November 2015. The biopsy indicated the presence of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff&#8217;s suit sought monetary compensation for lack of informed consent and medical malpractice; more particularly, the plaintiff asserted that the defendants had been negligent in failing to diagnose her with breast cancer and in failing to give her timely notification of the results of the radiologist&#8217;s report recommending a biopsy. The defendants&#8217; filed a motion for summary judgment, which was granted by the trial court. The plaintiff filed an appeal, seeking review from the appellate tribunal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/new-york-court-holds-that-failure-to-diagnose-breast-cancer-medical-malpractice-claim-was-timely-filed\/#more-2725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like other types of personal injury and wrongful death cases, claims for medical malpractice must be filed within a certain period of time (called the &#8220;statute of limitations&#8221;), or else the claimant forfeits his or her right to pursue fair compensation. While there a few exceptions to this general rule, these exceptions apply only to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failure-to-diagnose","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>New York Court Holds that Failure-to-Diagnose Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Claim Was Timely Filed &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; March 29, 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Like other types of personal injury and wrongful death cases, claims for medical malpractice must be filed within a certain period of time (called the &#8212; March 29, 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\/new-york-court-holds-that-failure-to-diagnose-breast-cancer-medical-malpractice-claim-was-timely-filed\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"New York Court Holds that Failure-to-Diagnose Breast Cancer Medical Malpractice Claim Was Timely Filed &#8212; 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