Cynthia S. Woodall v. AAA Ambulance Service

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. In this wrongful-death suit, the circuit judge found that, because the defendant was an instrumentality of governmental entities, the suit was controlled by the Mississippi Tort Claims Act. And because the plaintiff failed to file her complaint within the one-year statute of limitations, the circuit judge granted the defendants summary judgment. We affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL . HISTORY

¶ 2. Cynthia Woodall filed this wrongful-death action in the Pike County Circuit Court against AAA Ambulance Service, Inc., and Phillip McKey, AAA emergency…