Opinion ID: 1737977
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: calculating the time limitations

Text: Initially, the claimant, Patricia Hankey, maintains that the use of the word tolled in section 766.106(4) means that the two-year statute of limitations is suspended during the ninety-day period and during any other agreed extension. She maintains that an alternative reading of that statutory provision will effectively and substantially reduce the statutory limitations period in medical malpractice cases. On the other hand, the respondents urge us to find that the statute only has the limited application discussed in Pergrem; or, alternatively, that the word toll means only to bar. [3] Therefore, the respondents maintain that the statute simply provides that a claimant is barred from filing suit during this period, but the time that passes during this time period is still to be counted against the two years allowed for bringing suit.