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When the government is the only defendant in a Federal Tort Claims Act<\/a>, the statute of limitations is two years. It doesn\u2019t matter whether the plaintiff — who is the injured party in a medical negligence case — was a minor at the time of the injury. The statute is clear in that it states that a claim accrues when the plaintiff discovers, or a reasonable person in the plaintiff\u2019s position would have discovered, that she had in fact been injured by an act or omission attributable to the government. The issue in this case was when the two-year countdown started.<\/p>\n

Tenille Wallace\u2019s medical-malpractice claim was against two defendants — the federally funded Friend Family Health Center <\/a>and a private institution, the University of Chicago Hospital<\/a>. The case presented the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals with a \u201cnew twist\u201d on the usual scenario.<\/p>\n

Wallace received prenatal care at the Friend Family Health Center. Her son, E.Y., had a troubled delivery and has been diagnosed as suffering from diplegic cerebral palsy<\/a>. E.Y. was born at the University of Chicago Hospital on April 4, 2005.<\/p>\n

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