Watkins v. Exxon Mobil Corp.

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

[,We granted a writ of certiorari to consider Patricia Watkins’ challenges to the correctness of the trial court’s granting of the oil company defendants’1 peremptory exceptions of peremption and of no cause of action. The defendants argued and the trial court found that Ms. Watkins’ survival action was extinguished because it was perempted and that she has no cause of action for exemplary damages in connection with either her wrongful death or her survival action claims. After a de novo review of the legal issues presented, we conclude that the one-year period to bring a…