(June 20, 2018, 1:34 PM EDT) -- FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Kentucky appeals court on June 15 held that a trial court did not err when it vacated an $18 million jury verdict and granted a long-term care facility’s motion for a new trial, finding that an estate’s claims based on Kentucky’s long-term Resident’s Rights Acts could not be submitted to the jury because the resident died before the claims were filed (Patty Jennings, ex rel. Estate of Eliza Jennings v. Berea Area Development, LLC, No. 2016-CA-001823-MR, Ky. App., 2018 Ky. App. LEXIS 185)....