FERGUSON v. SPALDING REHABILITATION, LLC

Court of Appeals No. 18CA1067.

456 P.3d 59 (2019)

2019 COA 93

Marty FERGUSON, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ann Marilyn Ferguson, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SPALDING REHABILITATION, LLC; Sundeep Viswanathan, M.D.; Orhan Sancaktar, M.D.; Jason D. Dewees, M.D.; Aleksandra Basheer Kamal, M.D.; Maryann Bucani-Go, M.D.; Thomas A. Haffey, D.O.; and Bakorp LLC, d/b/a Pacific Mobile Diagnostics, Defendants-Appellees.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. IV.

Announced June 20, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wormington & Bollinger, Edwin P. Krieger , McKinney, Texas, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Hall Prangle & Schoonveld, LLC, Jacqueline B. Sharuzi-Brown , Todd J. Stalmack , Donna Bakalor , Denver, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellees Spalding Rehabilitation, LLC; Sundeep Viswanathan, M.D.; and Orhan Sancaktar, M.D.

Jaudon & Avery LLP, David H. Yun , Jared R. Ellis , Denver, Colorado, for Defendants-Appellees Jason D. Dewees, M.D.; Aleksandra Basheer Kamal, M.D.; Maryann Bucani-Go, M.D.; and Thomas A. Haffey, D.O.

Gordon & Rees LLP, John R. Mann , Thomas B. Quinn , Heather M. Gwinn Pabon , Denver, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellee Bakorp LLC.


¶ 1 Section 13-21-201(1)(b)(I)(B), C.R.S. 2018, a part of the Wrongful Death Act (WDA), says that a wrongful death suit may be brought in the second year after a decedent's death "[b]y the heir or heirs of the deceased." But is a person adopted as an adult by the decedent considered the decedent's "heir" under this...

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