MAINE MEDICAL CENTER v. COTE


577 A.2d 1173 (1990)

MAINE MEDICAL CENTER, et al. v. Karen L. COTE and Beau Cote.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 11, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Petruccelli (orally), Petruccelli, Cox & Martin, Robert Hanson, Norman, Hanson & Detroy, Ernest Babcock, Friedman & Babcock, Portland, for plaintiffs.

Kenneth W. Hovermale, Elizabeth Mulvey (orally), Bornstein & Hovermale, Portland, for defendants.

George W. Beals, Portland, for amicus curiae Maine Trial Lawyers Ass'n.

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


GLASSMAN, Justice.

The defendants, Karen Cote and her minor son Beau Cote, appeal the judgment on the pleadings entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Alexander, J.) in favor of the plaintiffs, Maine Medical Center, Christiane Northrup, M.D., and Allan C. McLean, M.D., in their action for a declaratory judgment that the Cotes' medical malpractice claims against the plaintiffs were barred by the provisions of 24 M.R.S.A. § 2902 (1990).

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