NY: “Lavern’s Law,” the Attempt to Move to a Med Mal Discovery Rule

New York is one of the few remaining jurisdictions that does not have a discovery rule for its medical malpractice statute of limitations.  For the past several years, a bill has been introduced to join the majority of jurisdictions.  The bills have been referred to as “Lavern’s Law” after Lavern Wilkinson, who died in 2013 after a misdiagnosis of cancer that delayed her treatment by two years.  The New York Daily News ran a pro-Lavern’s Law editorial yesterday.