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Question: Personal Injury - Massachusetts

Asked on 11/6/2009

Statute of limitations - prescribed medicine injury

If someone was prescribed medicine in Massachusetts by a doctor and had injuries from that medicine (both physical and even mental anguish) can the injured person still sue even though it happened 8 or 9 years ago? The injuries are still there.


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B. B., Member in Good Standing of the New Jersey Bar


I don't have to look up exactly what Massachusetts' statute of limitations is, for medical malpractice or products liability (if your claim is that it's the medicine's fault, not the doctor's, or both), but I would be astonished to find out that either is more than 6 years, and most states only allow 2 to 4 years for these types of lawsuits.  It's too late.

If you think you've been injured, by the negligence of a doctor or anyone else, or by a defective product, you should talk to a lawyer as soon as possible.  If you sleep on your rights, you will lose them.



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