Embassy Healthcare v. Bell (Slip Opinion)

*430{¶ 1} In this appeal, we consider whether a creditor's failure to present its claim for unpaid expenses to a decedent's estate within the six-month statute of *431limitations in R.C. 2117.06 bars a later action against the decedent's surviving spouse under R.C. 3103.03, Ohio's necessaries statute. A divided panel of the Twelfth District Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellant, Cora Sue Bell, and concluded that plaintiff-appellee, Embassy Healthcare, d.b.a Carlisle Manor Healthcare, could pursue its claim against Cora individually under…