{"id":898,"date":"2018-04-03T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/?p=898"},"modified":"2018-04-02T06:38:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:38:25","slug":"state-supreme-court-affirms-dismissal-assisted-living-negligence-lawsuit-based-two-year-statute-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/state-supreme-court-affirms-dismissal-assisted-living-negligence-lawsuit-based-two-year-statute-limitations\/","title":{"rendered":"State Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Assisted Living Negligence Lawsuit Based on Two-Year Statute of Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mississippi Appellate Court has held that the two-year statute of limitations for the wrongful death of Sanders Hopkins Sr. was the basis for the dismissal from the lawsuit brought by Hopkins\u2019 son.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins Sr. lived in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nursinghomesite.com\/BILOXI_COMMUNITY_LIVING_CENTER_BILOXI_MS\">Biloxi Community Living Center (CLC)<\/a>, an assisted living facility.\u00a0 He who used a wheelchair, required dialysis and was transported to an outside medical facility for these treatments. After dialysis one day, he fell from his wheelchair, hitting his head. Later the same day, he injured his head a second time, which led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subdural_hematoma\">subdural hematoma,<\/a> the condition that caused his untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins\u2019 son sued the company that transported him to the dialysis appointments and the medical facility. More than two years had passed after Hopkins\u2019s death when his son amended his complaint adding CLC as a party defendant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/nursing-home-lawyer\/state-supreme-court-affirms-dismissal-assisted-living-negligence-lawsuit-based-two-year-statute-limitations\/#more-898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mississippi Appellate Court has held that the two-year statute of limitations for the wrongful death of Sanders Hopkins Sr. was the basis for the dismissal from the lawsuit brought by Hopkins\u2019 son. Hopkins Sr. lived in the Biloxi Community Living Center (CLC), an assisted living facility.\u00a0 He who used a wheelchair, required dialysis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nursing-home-fall-cases","category-nursing-home-negligence","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal of Assisted Living Negligence Lawsuit Based on Two-Year Statute of Limitations &#8212; 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