Statute of Repose

  • Read more: Medical Malpractice and Wrongful Death under Maryland’s Statutes of Limitations and Repose
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    Medical Malpractice and Wrongful Death under Maryland’s Statutes of Limitations and Repose

    By Alex Stein On October 18, Maryland’s Court of Appeals has delivered a precedential ruling on the applicability of the state’s limitation and repose statutes to suits for wrongful death that allegedly resulted from medical malpractice.  Mummert v. Alizadeh— A.3d —-, 2013 WL 5663105 (Md. 2013). This ruling dealt with the following set of facts: A…

  • Read more: Using Malpractice Laws to Sabotage Roe v. Wade
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    Using Malpractice Laws to Sabotage Roe v. Wade

    By Alex Stein This method was pioneered by South Dakota and Indiana that set up special “informed consent” requirements for abortion procedures, SDCL § 34-23A-10.1 and IC 16-34-2-1.1. Under these requirements, physicians must tell the pregnant woman (inter alia) that “the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being” with whom…