Thankfully, Lavern’s Law will be enacted. It extends the statute of limitations for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice related to the failure to diagnose cancer.
The bill named after Lavern Wilkenson corrects a serious several decade injustice and made New York one of only two states that fails to legally protect certain victims of malpractice. The law will begun the time to sue until the victim knows or reasonably should know when an error or harm has occurred. The current law has denied potential justice to people such as Lavern who could not have known until after their time to sue had expired.
This had been opposed by hospitals, doctors and other big business interests.
