High Court Will Not Review Suit Alleging Fraudulent Concealment Of Bedsores

Mealey's (October 3, 2017, 8:46 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 2 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari, refusing to review a Maryland appeals court’s ruling that a daughter cannot maintain a claim of fraudulent concealment against a hospital that cared for her mother and allegedly concealed the existence of her mother’s bedsores because the daughter failed to prove that the mother’s health care providers owed her any duty of care (Celeste Puppolo, personal representative of the estate of Nancy V. Puppolo v. Holy Cross Hospital of Silver Spring Inc., No. 16-1410, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. LEXIS 4788)....