United States Fourth Circuit

In a suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act alleging that the plaintiff received negligent medical care at a VA hospital, the court certified the following question of Maryland law to the Court of Appeals of Maryland: Does Section 5-109(a)(1) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article of the Maryland Code constitute a statute of limitations or a statute of repose?

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2011
• Published 02/14/2012

Judges

• Diaz

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Byron Leslie Warnken, Lewis S. Yelin