California Court of Appeal
Pouzbaris v. Prime Healthcare Services-Anaheim, Inc., G048891
In a slip-and-fall case involving a recently mopped hospital floor that lacked any warning signs, the trial court's ruling that the action was barred by the one-year statute of limitations provision of the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA), Civil Code section 340.5, is reversed where a hospital’s purported conduct in mopping a floor and failing to provide warning signs does not constitutes "professional negligence" within the meaning of MICRA, and instead this conduct constitutes ordinary negligence, which is subject to the two-year limitations period under section 335.1.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/23/2015
- Published 04/23/2015
Judges
- RYLAARSDAM
Court
- California Court of Appeal