Commencement of action; complaint
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Atterholt v. Robinson (2007)
Most recently applied in Linda Martinez, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Roy Martinez v. Oaklawn Psychiatric Center (July 2019)
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.13.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Sec. 1. Subject to IC 34-18-10 and sections 4 through 6 of this chapter, a patient or the representative of a patient who has a claim under this article for bodily injury or death on account of malpractice may do the following:
(1) File a complaint in any court of law having requisite jurisdiction.
(2) By demand, exercise the right to a trial by jury.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.