Alvarado v. Estate of Kidd

Consistent with the view I have expressed in previous cases, see Wood v. Wayman, 47 So.3d 1212, 1220 (Ala.2010) (Murdock, J., dissenting), and Richards v. Baptist Health System, Inc., 176 So.3d 179, 179 (Ala.2014) (Murdock, J., dissenting), I believe this Court should return to the holding in Ogle v. Gordon, 706 So.2d 707 (Ala.1997), and to a straightforward, simple rule that the subsequent appointment of a person as the personal representative relates back so as to validate a timely filing of a wrongful-death action by that person. This Court held otherwise in Wood, embracing a rule that can…