Nursing home liability

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My Mom died 8/2707. She was 87 years old. She had suffered a stroke and was placed in an old folks home and not by my choosing. She fell and broke her femur bone and had to have surgery and really suffered after that. She eventually contracted pneumonia and died.

Asked 11/6/2009 under Personal Injury | 167 View(s) | More Legal Topics

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Timothy McCormick / Libris Solutions Answered 2 years ago | Contributor with 0 answers This attorney is licensed in California

Although you don't provide any information about how the injury occurred that would allow even the most preliminary evaluation of whether you would have had a case, the answer is "no." You can't sue them anymore.  The statute of limitations on personal injuries is two years.  You would have had to sue within two years of the injury.  You don't specify the date of the accident, but since your mother died in August, 2007, it had to be before that.  So your time to sue ran out sometime before August 27 of this year.

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