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ESTATE OF FRENCH v. STRATFORD HOUSE

No. E2008-00539-SC-R11-CV.

333 S.W.3d 546 (2011)

ESTATE OF Martha S. FRENCH v. STRATFORD HOUSE et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

January 26, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Drake Martin and Michael Chad Trammell , Jackson, Tennessee; Richard C. May , Knoxville, Tennessee; and Brian G. Brooks , Greenbrier, Arkansas, for the appellant, Kimberly S. French.

Alaric H. Henry and Thomas Mitchell Horne , Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the appellees, Stratford House, OP Chattanooga, Inc., Tandem Health Care, Inc., and Tandem Health Care of Ohio, Inc.

Clifford Wilson and Melissa Bradford Muller , Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellees, HP/Stratford House, Inc. and HP/Holding, Inc.

Karla C. Hewitt , Nashville, Tennessee, for the amicus curiae, Tennessee Citizen Action.

Wayne Allen Ritchie II , Nashville, Tennessee, for the amicus curiae, Tennessee Association for Justice.

F. Laurens Brock , David J. Ward , and T. Ryan Malone , Chattanooga, Tennessee; and John Lyell , Nashville, Tennessee, for the amicus curiae, Tennessee Health Care Association.

OPINION

GARY R. WADE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which CORNELIA A. CLARK, C.J., JANICE M. HOLDER, and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined. WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J., filed a separate opinion dissenting in part.

The administratrix of the estate of the deceased brought this wrongful death suit against the defendant nursing home and its controlling entities, alleging damages as the result of ordinary negligence, negligence per se, and violations of the...

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