(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signed into law a bill strongly opposed by hospitals and physician groups that extends the statute of limitations for cancer-related medical malpractice lawsuits.
Known as Lavern’s Law, the bill provides patients with a two-and-a-half year timeframe to bring a malpractice claim from when they discover an error or a missed diagnosis involving cancer. The law is named after Brooklyn resident Lavern Wilkinson, who died in 2013 at age 41 after doctors failed to detect that she had a curable form of lung cancer.
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