SNOPEK v. LAKELAND MEDICAL CENTER,

No. 96-3645.

223 Wis.2d 288 (1999)

588 N.W.2d 19

Belinda SNOPEK and Russell Snopek, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. LAKELAND MEDICAL CENTER, Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided January 21, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by Lori Gendelman, Jeffrey J.P. Conta and Otjen, Van Ert, Stangle, Lieb & Weir, S.C., Milwaukee and oral argument by Lori Gendelman.

For the plaintiffs-respondents there was a brief by Richard J. Steinberg, Richard D. Steinberg and Steinberg Law Offices, S.C., Brookfield and oral argument by Richard D. Steinberg.


¶ 1. WILLIAM A. BABLITCH, J.

Lakeland Medical Center (Lakeland), a medical facility previously owned by Walworth County, seeks review of a published court of appeals' decision1 which held that Belinda Snopek was not time-barred from suing Lakeland for an injury she sustained in 1979 but for which she did not bring suit until discovery of the injury in 1995. At the time of Snopek's injury in 1979, a plaintiff had to give a governmental...

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