Parsippany, NJ personal injury attorney Christopher Masmunno talks about bringing a medical malpractice case years later when you realized something is wrong. He discusses how the statute of limitations works in medical malpractice cases, explaining that while New Jersey generally imposes a two-year deadline for filing bodily injury claims, certain exceptions may apply. He points out that the discovery rule can extend the filing period when a patient could not reasonably have known that malpractice occurred. To illustrate, he describes a situation in which a surgeon leaves a sponge inside a patient during surgery, but the patient does not experience symptoms or discover the mistake until several years later. In that circumstance, the patient may still have the right to pursue a claim because the time limit begins when the malpractice is discovered rather than when the procedure originally took place.