BROWN v. BLEIBERG

Docket No. L.A. 31531.

32 Cal.3d 426 (1982)

651 P.2d 815

186 Cal. Rptr. 228

LEONIA BROWN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. LEON BLEIBERG et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

September 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Sanford M. Gage for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Wood, Tucker & Ward, Bonelli, Wood & Heib, Glen E. Tucker, Stanley M. Sapiro, Hagenbaugh & Murphy and Neil Gunny for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

REYNOSO, J.

We interpret provisions of the statute of limitation dealing with medical malpractice. In the case at bench, we reverse a summary judgment in favor of a podiatrist and a physician despite the passage of over 12 years since the plaintiff's injury. Although the delay in this case was extreme, a triable issue of fact exists whether the doctors' alleged affirmative concealment of the true nature of the surgery prevented...

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