Court Opinion

ID: 9505038
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 20:00:47.998937+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:14.896354
License: Public Domain

SHEPARD, Chief Justice,
concurring in result.
The General Assembly’s decision to adopt an occurrence-based statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims was long ago upheld against a substantial list of constitutional challenges in Johnson v. St. Vincent Hosp., Inc., 273 Ind. 374, 404 N.E.2d 585 (1980). We later held that the statute might be unconstitutional as applied if the nature of a patient’s particular affliction was such that it could not be discovered within the period chosen by the legislature. Martin v. Richey, 711 N.E.2d 1273 (Ind.1999). Nothing in the present facts prevented Mr. Herron from filing his claim on time, and I thus join in affirming the trial court.