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2015 SESSION

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SB 395 Personal action for injury to person; malpractice against health care provider, failure to report.

Introduced by: Jill Holtzman Vogel | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Personal action for injury to person; malpractice against health care provider; failure to report diagnosis of cancer. Provides that where negligence for a delay in communicating to a patient the interpretation of an imaging or diagnostic test or study in a malpractice claim against a health care provider who ordered such test or study that was interpreted to reveal a diagnosis of a malignant tumor or cancer, the normal two-year statute of limitations is extended for a period of one year from the date the diagnosis of a malignant tumor or cancer is communicated to the patient by a health care provider.

FULL TEXT

• 01/07/14  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14103321D  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/07/14  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14103321D
• 01/07/14  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/27/14  Senate: Continued to 2015 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
• 12/04/14  Senate: Left in Courts of Justice