Supreme Court of Texas

SHAH v. MOSS, 00-0091

Under the Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act, Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. art. 4590i, 10.01, if the date of the negligent surgery is known, the two-year statute of limitations runs from that date rather than when follow-up procedures ended.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/31/2001
• Decided 12/20/2001
• Published 12/20/2001

Judges

• Justice BAKER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice JEFFERSON and Justice RODRIGUEZ joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara A. Bauernfeind,Wagstaff, Alvis, Stubbeman, Seamster & Longacre, Abilene, Michael B. McKinney, Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Midland, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Drew Mouton, Bancroft, Mouton & Wolf, Big Spring, Denice Smith, Cash Allen, L.L.P., Houston, for respondent.