{"id":125,"date":"2013-07-01T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagobirthinjurylawyersblog.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2019-10-17T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:40:11","slug":"two-year-statute-of-limitations-applies-to-minors-under-the-federal-tort-claims-act-arteaga-v-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/two-year-statute-of-limitations-applies-to-minors-under-the-federal-tort-claims-act-arteaga-v-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Year Statute of Limitations Applies to Minors Under the Federal Tort Claims Act; Arteaga v. United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Seventh Circuit U.S. Circuit of Appeals has affirmed a decision by a federal court judge regarding the statute of limitations in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Tort_Claims_Act\">Federal Tort Claims Act<\/a> cases.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In this case, the plaintiff\u2019s attorney did not inform the plaintiff that the two-year statute of limitations for claims filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act was not tolled because of the minority of the plaintiff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gabriela Arteaga gave birth to an 11-pound baby girl in July 2004 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eriefamilyhealth.org\/\">Erie Family Health Center<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The baby\u2019s shoulders became stuck, which led to the child\u2019s birth injury.<span>\u00a0<\/span>A few months after the birth, Arteaga received the medical records and consulted a lawyer.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The first lawyer to review the case did not believe that the injury was caused by medical negligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/two-year-statute-of-limitations-applies-to-minors-under-the-federal-tort-claims-act-arteaga-v-united-states\/#more-125\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seventh Circuit U.S. Circuit of Appeals has affirmed a decision by a federal court judge regarding the statute of limitations in Federal Tort Claims Act cases.\u00a0 In this case, the plaintiff\u2019s attorney did not inform the plaintiff that the two-year statute of limitations for claims filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-shoulder-dystocia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two-Year Statute of Limitations Applies to Minors Under the Federal Tort Claims Act; Arteaga v. 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