Christopher Pollan v. Andrew Wartak

KING, JUSTICE, DISSENTING:

¶ 28. In wrongful-death actions sounding in medical negligence, the statute of limitations for survival claims does not begin to run until the patient reasonably can be held to have known of the causative relationship between her injury and the conduct of the medical practitioner. Neglen v. Breazeale , 945 So.2d 988 , 990 (Miss. 2006) (citations omitted). The autopsy report in this case definitively revealed for the first time that the patient's neurological injury had resulted from the rapid correction of her sodium levels after a period of severe hyponatremia. No…