Louisiana Panel Finds Grandsons’ Suit Against Nursing Home Not Prescribed

(August 27, 2018, 12:53 PM EDT) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana appeals panel on Aug. 22 denied a nursing home’s petition seeking reversal of a trial court judge’s decision finding that a lawsuit brought by two grandsons of a woman who died months after sustaining a leg laceration while at the facility was not prescribed by the one-year statute of limitations, finding that a request for a medical panel review tolled the start of the statute of limitations (James E. Guffey, et al. v. Lexington House LLC, No. 18-475, La. App., 3rd Cir., 2018 La. App. LEXIS 1620)....

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