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Chapter 75-9, Laws of Florida (Medical-Malpractice Limitation and Repose)

The 1975 special act that established the two-year discovery-based period and outside four-year medical-malpractice repose framework.

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Source type
Statute or session law
Date
February 21, 1975
Issuing body or court
Florida Legislature
Jurisdiction
Florida
Citation
Ch. 75-9, Laws of Fla.
Provenance
Direct public opinion or session-law page; record compiled by Florida Hellthcare.
Completeness and known gaps
Complete public text linked; verify reporter pagination before quotation.
Source checked
2026-09-12
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What it establishes: The act replaced the earlier general four-year malpractice limitations treatment with a two-year incident-or-discovery formulation, an outside four-year boundary, and specified longer treatment for fraud, concealment, or intentional misrepresentation.

Historical caution: The enactment occurred amid legislative assertions of a medical-malpractice insurance crisis. This record documents the law enacted; it does not treat every crisis premise as an enduring empirical fact.

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