The official summary of LD 549:
Under current law, the statute of limitations on a medical malpractice claim begins to run on the date of the act or omission that gave rise to the injury, unless the medical malpractice claim is based on the leaving of a foreign object in the body. The statute of limitations does not begin to run on a medical malpractice claim based on the leaving of a foreign object in the body until the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered the harm.
This bill provides that the statute of limitations does not begin to run on any medical malpractice claim, regardless of whether the claim is based on the leaving of a foreign object in the body, until the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered the harm.
The bill also makes a technical change to remove an obsolete cross-reference in the law.
