urging application of the discovery rule to a husband’s claims of loss of consortium, loss of services, and medical expenses arising from an alleged medical malpractice on his wife
How later courts described this case
- urging application of the discovery rule to a husband’s claims of loss of consortium, loss of services, and medical expenses arising from an alleged medical malpractice on his wife
- “ ‘[t]he right of action of a husband for damages for medical expenses, loss of consortium and loss of services of his wife injured by the malpractice of a physician is not one for malpractice’ ”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Herbert, J.,
dissenting. In iny judgment,? the statute of limitations governing this appellant’s cause - of action commenced running when the physician-patient relationship between his wife and her physician terminated.} The judgnient' appealed from should be reversed-.. .' '