{"id":22862,"date":"2023-08-19T14:55:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/probatestars.com\/?p=22862"},"modified":"2023-08-19T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T14:56:21","slug":"do-you-have-to-be-the-personal-representative-when-you-sue-a-nursing-home-in-florida-on-behalf-of-a-deceased-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/probatestars.com\/do-you-have-to-be-the-personal-representative-when-you-sue-a-nursing-home-in-florida-on-behalf-of-a-deceased-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have to Be the Personal Representative When You Sue a Nursing Home in Florida on Behalf of a Deceased Resident?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A commonly litigated issue in Florida is the requirement for all wrongful death cases to be brought in the name of the personal representative of the decedent’s estate.\u00a0 Florida’s wrongful death statute provides as follows:<\/p>\n

768.20\u2003Parties.\u2014The action shall be brought by the decedent\u2019s personal representative, who shall recover for the benefit of the decedent\u2019s survivors and estate all damages, as specified in this act, caused by the injury resulting in death. When a personal injury to the decedent results in death, no action for the personal injury shall survive, and any such action pending at the time of death shall abate. The wrongdoer\u2019s personal representative shall be the defendant if the wrongdoer dies before or pending the action. A defense that would bar or reduce a survivor\u2019s recovery if she or he were the plaintiff may be asserted against the survivor, but shall not affect the recovery of any other survivor.<\/p>\n

The requirement that a wrongful death claim be brought by the personal representative of an estate is strictly enforced in Florida.<\/p>\n

When an injured plaintiff in a personal injury action dies, it is both necessary and proper for the personal representative of the decedent\u2019s estate to be named a party in the pending action so that a survival damages claim, a wrongful death claim, or both, may continue to be pursued against an alleged tortfeasor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Capone v. Philip Morris United States, Inc.<\/a>, 116 So. 3d 363 (Fla. 2013).<\/p>\n

Florida has a comprehensive nursing home statute, setting forth rights of residents and responsibilities of the facilities.\u00a0 Included in the Florida nursing home statute is a provision setting forth how those rights are enforced, including on behalf of a deceased former resident:<\/p>\n

Section 400.023\u2003Civil enforcement.\u2014<\/p>\n

(1)\u2003An exclusive cause of action for negligence or a violation of residents\u2019 rights as specified under this part which alleges direct or vicarious liability for the personal injury or death of a nursing home resident arising from such negligence or violation of rights and which seeks damages for such injury or death may be brought only against the licensee, the licensee\u2019s management or consulting company, the licensee\u2019s managing employees, and any direct caregivers, whether employees or contractors. A passive investor is not liable under this section. An action against any other individual or entity may be brought only pursuant to subsection (3).<\/p>\n

(a)\u2003The action may be brought by the resident or his or her guardian, by a person or organization acting on behalf of a resident with the consent of the resident or his or her guardian, or by the personal representative of the estate of a deceased resident regardless of the cause of death.<\/p>\n

Essentially, an action under the Florida nursing home statute over the death of a former resident operates in the same manner as any wrongful death lawsuit – the action must be brought in the name of the personal representative of the estate of the deceased.<\/p>\n

In practice, however, it is not always possible to initially bring the wrongful death action, or as here the nursing home death action, in the name of the personal representative of the estate.\u00a0 There can be delays in getting a personal representative appointed, a statute of limitations could be on the verge of expiring, or the action needs to be brought immediately to force the preservation of evidence.\u00a0 To balance the requirement that wrongful death actions needs to be brought in the name of the personal representative with the practicalities of life, Florida courts allow wrongful death lawsuits to be filed in the name of a purported personal representative, so long as a personal representative gets appointed.\u00a0 The “standing” problem, that Florida law requires proper standing when a lawsuit is filed, is solved through application of the concept of “relation back.”\u00a0 A litigant can file in the name of a purported personal representative, and the lack of standing will be cured by allowing the purported personal representative to be treated as the personal representative when the lawsuit was initially filed, so long as the person is eventually appointed by the probate court.<\/p>\n

But if you wait too long to be appointed personal representative, or don’t ask the court to suspend proceedings while problems are resolved in the probate court in getting the personal representative appointed, the wrongful death case can be lost.\u00a0 In Nieves v. Senior Health TNF, LLC<\/a>, 2D22-423 (2nd DCA 2023), that is exactly what took place.\u00a0 A nursing home wrongful death action was filed by the plaintiff under the Florida Nursing Home Act, yet the plaintiff just never quite got around to becoming appointed as the personal representative, and never properly asked the court to stay proceedings for enough time to become appointed.\u00a0 The Court reasoned as follows:<\/p>\n

The powers of a personal representative relate back in time to give acts by the person appointed, occurring before appointment and beneficial to the estate, the same effect as those occurring after appointment.’ \u00a7 733.601, Fla. Stat. (2021).<\/p>\n

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Undisputedly, Ms. Nieves was not the personal representative when the trial court dismissed the lawsuit or when it denied her rehearing motion. Accordingly, the trial court correctly dismissed the lawsuit. See Graca v. Rosebank Mar., Inc., No. 04-14302, 2005 WL 6458603, at *2 (11th Cir. Mar. 8, 2005).<\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n

The relation-back doctrine did not apply because Ms. Nieves was never the personal representative in the trial court proceedings. See \u00a7 733.601. She did not timely cure the standing problem in the trial court.<\/p>\n

<\/h6>\n

The cases upon which Ms. Nieves relies are distinguishable; indeed, they support our conclusion. The parties in those cases obtained standing before the final order or before moving for rehearing. See Griffin, 73 So.2d at 844-46 (holding the trial court erred in dismissing the case where the daughter later qualified as administrator at the time of the dismissal and the father qualified as administrator when he petitioned for rehearing); Friedel, 327 So.3d at 1246-47 (applying the relation-back doctrine where the plaintiff filed a complaint against a deceased person and the trial court substituted the deceased’s appointed personal representative as the defendant); Lindor, 255 So.3d at 491-93 (remanding for reinstatement of the case where the plaintiff sought to substitute for the appointed personal representative before the trial court dismissed the case); Talan v. Murphy, 443 So.2d 207, 208 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983) (applying the relation-back doctrine where the plaintiff was appointed executor while the action was pending). Consequently, the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice and without leave to amend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given the importance of being able to bring a wrongful death action, the courts in Florida make ample allowance for litigants to perfect their standing in bringing such actions.\u00a0 But at some point, the plaintiff needs to perfect his or her standing as personal representative, or the action will fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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