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BRADSHAW v. SOULSBY

No. 29004.

558 S.E.2d 681 (2001)

210 W.Va. 682

Patricia Lou BRADSHAW, Administratrix of the Estate of James J. Bradshaw and Patricia Lou Bradshaw, individually, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. David L. SOULSBY, M.D., A.C. Velasquez, M.D., Alberto C. Lee, M.D., and Kenneth McNeil, M.D., Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided December 10, 2001.

Dissenting Opinion of Justice Maynard December 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean P. McGinley, Esq., L. Dante DiTrapano, Esq., Mary Sadd Blaydes, Esq., DiTrapano, Barrett & DiPiero, PLLC, Charleston, for the Appellant.

Jeffrey M. Wakefield, Esq., Elizabeth S. Cimino, Esq., Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso, PLLC, Charleston, for Appellee David L. Soulsby, M.D.

Sprague W. Hazard, Esq., Charleston, for Appellee A.C. Velasquez, M.D.

Thomas J. Hurney, Esq., Rob J. Aliff, Esq., Jackson & Kelly, PLLC, Charleston, for Appellee Alberto C. Lee, M.D.

D.C. Offutt, Jr., Esq., Offutt, Fisher & Nord, Huntington, for Appellee Kenneth McNeil, M.D.

STARCHER, Justice.

In this appeal from the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, the appellant challenges the circuit court's dismissal of her wrongful death action. The circuit court ruled that the discovery rule does not apply to toll the 2-year statute of limitation in wrongful death actions, and concluded that the appellant's lawsuit—which was filed 2 years and 3 days after the decedent's death—was untimely...

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