Medical malpractice · Virginia

For Medical malpractice · Virginia, limitation period is two-year; how the statute describes it is actions for malpractice against a health care provider, verified against its source on 2026-08-25.

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What the source says

C. The two-year limitations period specified in subsection A shall be extended in actions for malpractice against a health care provider as follows: 1. In cases arising out of a foreign object having no therapeutic or diagnostic effect being left in a patient's body, for a period of one year from the date the object is discovered or reasonably should have been discovered; 2. In cases in which fraud, concealment, or intentional misrepresentation prevented discovery of the injury within the two-year period, for one year from the date the injury is discovered or, by the exercise of due diligence, reasonably should have been discovered; and

— law.lis.virginia.gov, retrieved 2026-08-25

Source

• law.lis.virginia.govhttps://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-243/

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