A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a legal malpractice lawsuit that a lower court had dismissed as untimely, highlighting how critical timing an ...

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Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Dr. Debbie Vigil didn’t plan to retire in 2023. Born and raised in Santa Fe, Vigil started practicing as an ...

"The statute begins to run under the discovery rule not when the patient was diagnosed with cancer, but when patient knew ... that there was negligence," write Thomas A. Moore and Matthew Gaier. Six ...

Vigil retired in July 2023 at age 65, though she estimated she had at least five more years in her. Nobody is entirely happy with New Mexico’s medical malpractice system. Doctors like Vigil say the ...