Medical malpractice in Missouri
Last checked Aug 15, 2026 · LawyerUnc editorial. Educational only, not legal advice.
Elements
1
Provider-patient relationship
The defendant undertook to treat the patient.
2
Standard of care
What a reasonably careful similar provider would have done under similar circumstances.
3
Breach
The care fell below that standard.
4
Causation and injury
The breach more likely than not caused a compensable injury, not merely a bad outcome.
Burden of proof
Preponderance of the evidence, usually with expert testimony on the standard of care.
A Missouri fact pattern
Medical malpractice in missouri.
Statute of limitations
2 years
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.105
Two years from the occurrence of the act of neglect. Missouri is an occurrence clock on adult malpractice.
Repose: 10 years.
- Ten-year outer wall. Foreign-object and failure-to-inform have listed carve-outs in the same section.