Limitation issues can be complex legal matters and it is essential to obtain advice from an experienced Michigan medical malpractice attorney. A medical malpractice action may be brought within two years after the act or omission or it may be brought within six months after the claimant discovers or should have discovered the existence of the claim, so long as it is brought within six years after the act or omission. The six-year statute does not apply if the health care provider's fraud prevents discovery or the injury involves the claimant's reproductive system.
In addition, a minor's action may be brought by a Michigan medical malpractice attorney any time before the minor's tenth birthday (or fifteenth birthday for injury to the reproductive system). If a claimant is insane when his medical malpractice action accrues, he may bring an action up to one year after the disability is removed.
An action for wrongful death accrues on the date of the wrongful act, not the date of death and is governed by the statute of limitations that would have applied had the decedent merely been injured. The wrongful death "saving statute" can extend either the two-year or six-month period. If the injured person dies before the statute runs (or within a 30-day grace period thereafter), his personal representative may instruct a Michigan medical malpractice attorney to sue within two years after being appointed so long as the suit is commenced within three years after the statute expires.
If you are the innocent victim of a medical mistake then you may be able to recover compensation. For free advice without obligation from a Michigan medical malpractice attorney just complete the contact form and a member of The Association Of Trial Lawyers Of America will telephone you immediately to discuss your compensation claim without further obligation.
Bigler, Berry, Johnston, Sztykiel & Hunt,1301 West Long
Lake Road, Oakland Co., Troy
Elkins & Associates, 4190 Telegraph Road, Oakland Co.,
Bloomfield Hills
York & Tiderington, 604 South Rose Street, Kalamazoo Co.,
Kalamazoo
May & Sucher, 5777 West Maple Road, Oakland Co., West
Bloomfield
Davis & Kuhnke, P.C., 405 North Main Street, Washtenaw Co.,
Ann Arbor
Sarvis & Herrmann, 30400 Telegraph Road Suite 460, Oakland
Co., Bingham Farms
Willmarth, Ramar & Paradiso, P.C., 535 Griswold Street,
Suite 2550, Wayne Co., Detroit
Femminineo Attorneys, P.L.L.C. , 21231 Kelly Road, Macomb Co.,
Eastpointe
Robert H. Roether, 27780 Novi Road, Suite 230, Oakland Co., Novi
Dykema Law Offices, P.C., 4270 Plainfield Avenue, NE, Suite
C, Kent Co., Grand Rapids
Abood Law Firm, 117 East Allegan, Suite 200, Ingham Co., Lansing,
Michigan 48933
Hemming, Polaczyk, Cronin, Smith & Witthoff, 217 West
Ann Arbor Road, Plymouth
Bredell and Bredell, 2950 South State Street, Suite 280, Washtenaw
Co., Ann Arbor
Winegarden, Winegarden & Himelhoch, 2347 Stonebridge
Drive Building G, Flint
Michael J. Morse, P.C., 9080 West 10 Mile Road, Oakland Co.,
Southfield
Mayer B. Gordon & Associates, 607 Shelby, Suite 550, Wayne
Co., Detroit
Joseph H. Spiegel, 825 Victors Way Suite 300, Washtenaw Co.,
Ann Arbor
Russell L. Green, 416 North Homer, Suite 106, Ingham Co.,
Lansing
James O. Elliott, 43494 Woodward Avenue, Oakland Co.,
Bloomfield Hills
