BAKER v. FARRAND

Docket: Yor-10-536

26 A.3d 806 (2011)

2011 ME 91

Philip L. BAKER v. Merrill FARRAND Jr. et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: August 18, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian L. Sweet, Esq. (orally), Craig A. Bramley, Esq. , Berman & Simmons, P.A., Lewiston, ME, for Philip Baker.

Mark G. Lavoie, Esq. , Christopher C. Taintor, Esq. (orally), Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC, Portland, ME, for Merrill Farrand, Jr., and The Medical Group.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] The question presented on report is whether we will recognize the continuing negligent treatment doctrine, which allows a patient to assert a cause of action for professional negligence based upon two or more related negligent acts or omissions by a health care provider or practitioner if some, but not all, of the acts or omissions occurred outside of the three-year statute of limitations period established by the Maine Health Security Act, 24...

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