Miss. Supreme Court Finds Silica Action Barred by Statute of Limitations

JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed that a wrongful death action brought in 2007 by the former executor and ex-stepdaughter of a man who died of silicosis in 2003 is barred by that state's three-year statute of limitations. Kinsey v. Pangborn Corp., et al., No. 2010-CA-00925-SCT (Miss. Sup. Ct.).

The high court said in ruling for appellees in its Nov. 3 opinion that the statute of limitations question was dispositive, and the court did not directly address the question of appellant Diana Kinsey's standing as the former executor of Ted Watkins' estate or as his ex-stepdaughter and …