BLACK v. WARD


549 A.2d 371 (1988)

Abigail BLACK v. Carol R. WARD, M.D.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided October 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Roberts Hunt (orally), James M. Bowie, Hunt, Thompson & Bowie, Portland, for plaintiff.

Ernest J. Babcock (orally), Elizabeth L. Lovejoy, Friedman & Babcock, Portland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD and HORNBY, JJ.


CLIFFORD, Justice.

Plaintiff, Abigail Black, appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court, (Cumberland County; Perkins, J.), in favor of defendant, Dr. Carol R. Ward, a physician. Because the Superior Court incorrectly concluded that plaintiff's medical malpractice complaint was barred by the statute of limitations, we vacate the judgment.

Black's complaint alleged that in 1983, Dr. Ward, an obstetrician and gynecologist, misdiagnosed...

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