Brown v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

Roy Dewayne Brown was a patient at the White House Alcoholism Treatment Center when he walked out of an unlocked door onto the roof of the building and either fell or jumped to his death on April 11, 1983. Nearly three years later, his surviving spouse and other next of kin, appellants, filed suit against the center’s insurer, St. Paul Mercury Insurance Co., appellee. The trial court found that Brown’s death was a “medical injury” subject to the two-year statute of limitations in Ark. Stat. Ann. § 34-2616 (Supp. 1985), and granted appellee’s motion for summary…