Williams v. Regency Hospital Company, LLC

Summary

The court affirmed dismissal of the medical-malpractice claims as time-barred because the statutory exclusion of mental-incompetence tolling for medical-malpractice actions survives rational-basis review. It held that existing precedent largely controls the equal-protection challenge and that the expert-affidavit requirement does not eliminate a rational basis for the separate non-tolling provision. The court declined to consider an argument concerning changed societal views because it was not preserved below.