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MORALES-MELECIO v. UNITED STATES

No. 16-2064.

890 F.3d 361 (2018)

Luz Z. MORALES-MELECIO; María I. Martínez-Ortiz; Emilio Matos-Pérez; Mariela Matos-Martínez, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES (DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES), Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Emergency Practice Management, P.S.C.; Hospital Universitario Dr. Ramón Ruiz Arnau; Dr. Luis E. Mejías-Betancourt; Dr. Ricardo Rosario-Mendoza; Dr. Minely Martínez-Velásquez; Dr. Luis Rodríguez-Roselló, Third-Party Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 21, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

José F. Velázquez-Ortiz , Ponce, PR and Velázquez Law Offices, PSC on brief for appellants.

John A. Mathews II , Assistant United States Attorney, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez , United States Attorney, and Mariana E. Bauzá-Almonte , Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, on brief for appellee.

Before Torruella, Lipez, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.

This case once again calls for this Court to determine the accrual date of a claim arising under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680, and the potential application of the so-called "discovery rule."

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On March 1, 2010, Emilio Matos-Martínez ("Matos") died...

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