MORTON v. NATIONAL MEDICAL ENTERPRISES

Nos. 97-CV-817, 97-CV-818, 97-CV-819, 97-CV-855, 97-CV-872.

725 A.2d 462 (1999)

Paris MORTON (No. 97-CV-817), Patricia Walker (No. 97-CV-818), Kathryn James (No. 97-CV-819), Russell Cappello (No. 97-CV-855), and Bernard Freed (No. 97-CV-872), Appellants, v. NATIONAL MEDICAL ENTERPRISES, INC., n/k/a Tenet Healthcare Corp., et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 11, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth D. Pack, with whom E. David Hoskins, William G. Minkin, Baltimore, MD, and John Jude O'Donnell Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellants.

F. Joseph Warin, with whom Julia A. Dahlberg and Thomas G. Hungar, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee Psychiatric Institutes of America, Inc.; Paul D. Krause and Carol Ann Petren, Washington, DC, for appellee Psychiatric Institute of Washington, D.C., Inc.; Lawrence K. Gustafson, Washington, DC, for appellee National Medical Enterprises, Inc.; Steven A. Hamilton and John J. Dillon, Washington, DC, for appellee Gary R. Spivack, M.D.; Andrew E. Vernick and Michael K. Wiggins, Annapolis, MD, for appellees Richard Greenberg, M.D., Shirley Papilsky, M.D., and Jean Smith, M.D.; Thomas V. Monahan, Winchester, VA, and Susan T. Preston, Baltimore, MD, for appellees Alan J. Salerian, M.D., Lawrence A. Brain, M.D., Joseph Marnell, M.D., and Metropolitan Psychiatric Group.

Before SCHWELB and RUIZ, Associate Judges, and KING, Senior Judge.


KING, Senior Judge:

In this consolidated appeal, appellants challenge the trial court's award of summary judgment to appellees on statute of limitations grounds. The litigation arose out of the allegedly negligent treatment appellants received at psychiatric hospitals affiliated with or subsidiary to National Medical Enterprises, Inc. (NME), between 1986 and 1991. Appellants' suits, which were filed in Superior Court on May 1, 1996, therefore are barred by the three...

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